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Her first flavor of the snowskin mooncake is made with coconut mochi butter cake, peanuts and crispy chicken skin.

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The other snowskin mooncake is filled with mascarpone cream and a strawberry in the center.

Finally, her traditional baked mooncake features a marzipan-enveloped fig.

\"Because the process is so labor intensive, most people will buy boxes of mooncakes at the Asian market,\" Lam said. \"Not very many people make it themselves. Even my mom hasn't ever made one. I tried to create something different by using different flavors that you would never find in a store and that also fit in with Kimika.\"

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