I bought several wooden carved cake molds from a girl in China last year. But I didn't make anything untill now. Alan and I made our first Dragon and Phoenix mooncake from the largest Mooncake mold we bought. The whole cake weights 500g which is about 1.1 lb. The filling weights for 400g about 0.8 lb.

We only made one Dragon and Phoenix cake, the one you see here. (we made several small ones also, as you will find one in the last picture I posted here)

                    
Red bean paste is my favorite sweet paste in mooncakes. I made my own paste this time, soaked red beans in water for over night, simmered on the stove for 2 hours, sit for several hours. then filtered in cheese cloth to get the finest red bean paste. Slowly stir fried filtered red bean paste with oil and sugar till they are well mixed. Oh my... now I think of the efforts, I would say I was nuts.

                      
This is the picture before we baked the cake. Cellphone was there for compare the size of it.

This mooncake is not a perfect looking one, but Alan and I are still glad we made it.