Traditionally they are supposed to be made with an egg in the center, or so I am told. But nowadays they are made with all kinds of fillings. In fact, we had frozen yogurt mooncakes 
with Jonathan and Soyan at TCBY. (They used orange sherbert in the heart of each icecream moon cake to represent the egg yolk. We recommend the vanilla and strawberry flavors for anybody who wishes to try the TCBY options. But stay away from the green tea!)The mooncake above was being given away at work. There were many flavors to choose from and I got a red bean paste.
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"we had frozen yogurt mooncakes with Jonathan and Soyan at TCBY."
Took me a minute to realize that Jonathan and Soyan weren't frozen yogurt fillings.
Too early. Oy.
Either that cake is much smaller than I first imagined,or... I'm really not sure how to finish that comment. Happy Mid Autumn Festival!!
Oh, and mmm... Jonathan and Soyan
Mmmmm...red bean paste.
Red bean ice cream. Even mmmmmier.
Apparently some clarification is required. The mooncake in the attached image is not from TCBY, it was a gift from some Chinese people Cara knows. The cake shown is about 3 inches square and about 1 ½ inches thick. It is meant to be eaten by one person. In fact, most of the moon cakes we see are meant to be eaten by one person, although the TCBY people were gracious enough to cut the 4 differently flavored cakes we purchased into 4 pieces so we could each try each flavor. And while Soyan and Jonathan are sweet people, they are not ice cream flavors (that we know of). Actually, Soyan had a few things to say herself about mooncakes which you can read here.
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