August 30, 2011

Chilled Mooncake

Recipe: Chilled Mooncake / SnowSkin Mooncake冰皮月饼
For my 85g mooncake size, I used 40g snowskin + 20g sweet potato yolk + 25g filling for each mooncake. Please self estimate the snowskin and filling usage base on the size of your mooncake mold.

Most chilled mooncake recipes call for Koh Fun(糕粉), which is cooked glutinous rice flour. For my recipe, I'm using the common glutinous rice flour and have it cook as shown in step 1.


From left to right: 1) Chocolate Expresso Snowskin + Cream Cheese Lotus Seed Paste    2) Pandan SnowSkin + Lotus Seed Paste    3) Strawberry Snowskin + Cream Cheese Lotus Seed Paste    4) Coconut Snowskin + Black Bean Paste.
The yolks were made from steamed sweet potatoes.
Ingredients
  • Extra cooked glutinous rice flour for dusting
Tools Needed
  • mooncake mold / jelly mold
  • kitchen scale
Coconut Milk Snowskin - about 135g
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 TBSP. instant coconut powder
  • 1 TBSP. milk powder
  • 2 TBSP sugar
  • 20g butter
  • 60g cooked glutinous rice flour (sifted)
  • 45g rice flour (sifted)
  • 30g tapioca starch / corn starch (sifted)
Pandan Snowskin - about 135g
  • ¼ cup pandan juice (Extracted from 7 pcs pandan / screwpine leaves and enough water. Blended & strained.)
  • 1 TBSP. instant coconut powder
  • 2 TBSP sugar
  • 20g butter
  • 60g cooked glutinous rice flour (sifted)
  • 45g rice flour (sifted)
  • 30g tapioca starch / corn starch (sifted)
Strawberry Snowskin - about 135g
  • 2½ TBSP water
  • 2 TBSP strawberry sauce
  • 1 TBSP sugar or to taste (the sauce itself might be sweet)
  • 20g butter
  • 60g cooked glutinous rice flour (sifted)
  • 45g rice flour (sifted)
  • 30g tapioca starch / corn starch (sifted)
Chocolate Expresso Snowskin - about 135g
  • 2 tsp. + ¼ cup expresso
  • 1½ TBSP unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 2½ TBSP sugar or to taste
  • 20g butter
  • 60g cooked glutinous rice flour (sifted)
  • 45g rice flour (sifted)
  • 30g tapioca starch / corn starch (sifted)
Fillings
Measurements: tsp. = teaspoon | TBSP = tablespoon
Preparation
  • 1. Sum up the amount of glutionous rice flour that you will need for your snowskin and extra for dusting. Prepare more to standby. Stir-fry glutinous rice flour in a grease-free saucepan over medium heat until slightly turn yellow. Keep stirring occasionally. Turn off the heat and set aside the flour.
  • 2. Sift the cooked glutinous rice flour.
  • 3. Heat up all the ingredients for coconut milk snowskin (EXCEPT for the 3 types of flour) until sugar dissolve and butter melted.
  • 4. Combine the 3 types of flour for the coconut milk snowskin in a mixing bowl. Stir in the hot coconut milk mixture.
  • 5. Stir until incorporate. Cover the coconut milk snowskin with cling wrap and set aside.
  • 6. Heat up all the ingredients for pandan snowskin (EXCEPT for the 3 types of flour) until sugar dissolve and butter melted.
  • 7. Combine the 3 types of flour for pandan snowskin in a mixing bowl. Stir in the hot pandan mixture.
  • 8. Stir until incorporate. Cover the pandan snowskin with cling wrap and set aside.
  • 9. Heat up all the ingredients for strawberry snowskin (EXCEPT for the 3 types of flour) until sugar dissolve and butter melted.
  • 10. Combine the 3 types of flour for strawberry snowskin in a mixing bowl. Stir in the hot strawberry mixture.
  • 11. Stir until incorporate. Cover the strawberry snowskin with cling wrap and set aside.
  • 12. Heat up all the ingredients for chocolate expresso snowskin (EXCEPT for the 3 types of flour) until sugar dissolve and butter melted.
  • 13. Combine the 3 types of flour for chocolate expresso snowskin in a mixing bowl. Stir in the hot chocolate expresso mixture.
  • 14. Stir until incorporate. Cover the chocolate expresso snowskin with cling wrap and set aside.
  • 15. Form sweet potato paste into equal weight balls. Sweet potato balls will be used as yolks.
  • 16. Form black bean filling into equal weight balls. Then, flatten each ball. Place a sweet potato ball in the center of a flatten black bean ball and gently wrap the yolk up into a ball. Repeat the process with the remaining bean filling.
  • 17. Repeat step 16 for lotus paste and cream cheese lotus paste fillings. Set aside the fillings when done.
  • 18. Form different flavors of snowskin into equal weight balls. Then, lightly dust each ball with extra cooked glutinous rice flour to avoid sticking.
  • 19. Flatten a snowskin ball.
  • 20. Put a filling ball in the center of a flatten snowskin and wrap it up. By holding the half wrappad mooncake ball on one hand, gently press the top of filling with your thumb. Then, gently turn and press the snowskin edges with your thumb and index finger on the other hand to enclose the filling and seal it up.
  • 21. You should have your mooncake ball sealed up and ready now.
  • 22. Lightly dust the mooncake ball with some extra cooked glutinous rice flour again to prevent sticking while molding.
  • 23. Put the mooncake ball in your mooncake mold carefully. Gently press to fit.
  • 24. Carefully put the mooncake mold on working surface. Then, press the mold plunger to stamp on the mooncake dough.
  • 25. Slightly lift the mooncake mold. Continue pushing the mold plunger carefully to release your mooncake. Place mooncake on a platter.
  • 26. Repeat steps 19 until 25 for the remaining snowskin balls.
  • 27. Snowskin mooncakes are ready to serve. It is better to refrigerate the mooncakes for 1 to 2 hours. To avoid moist while storing snowskin mooncakes in the refrigerator, place 2 layers of paper kitchen towel on the opening of your air tight container before you cover it with lid.
  • Notes
  • Homemade chilled mooncakes can be stored in refrigerator for up to 3 days or a week.
  • It is good to consume homemade chilled mooncakes as soon as possible.




  • 3 comments:

    1. haha i definitely prefer sweet potatoes than egg yolks! good idea!

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    2. EAN, I'm glad that u like the idea. It sounds healthy using sweet potatoes rite. In fact, I like the egg yolks. But I've no choice. The yolks here are all cooked & frozen ones...... Doesn't look fresh to me :(

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    3. Hi, may I know how much is 1/4 cup? I ve used 1/4measuring cup & it turned out to be very dry. Pls help! Thanks

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