These are gyeong dan (경단), a kind of rice cake made with sweet rice flour, shaped like little balls, boiled, and often rolled in various powders/flakes. Here they are rolled in mung bean (녹두; nok du) powder. The face pieces are picked from a mulling spice packet. The snowman's hair is inspired by the unofficial style for cooks extrapolated from the show Top Chef and the snow-woman's head pieces by Princess Leia cake and 'sheep head' (양머리; yang meo ri). They are filled with toasted walnuts, dates soaked in rum and sugar.
It is really snowing outside...Happy New Year!
| KOREAN WORDS | ||||
| New Year | 새해 | (sae hae) | ||
| rice cake (in general) | 떡 | (ddeok) | ||
| snowman | 눈사람 | (nun sa ram) | ||
