This year I've started my mooncake making a little too late and my "To-do" list is getting long as I see more friends introducing me more new mooncakes to try. I ended up having too many things on my agenda and too little time to make. Nonetheless. I've managed to try out several new treats.
My most satisfied product will be the 'Ombre snowkin bauble mooncake', it was supposed to look like a bauble on the christmas tree but someone told me it looked more like custard apple which I totally agree with. Well! they were so pretty that I couldn't bring myself to cut and eat them. After all, I've spent 2 hours making 5 different colours, I really have to think twice before I decide which one to eat first.
Making these are pretty straight forward. I've used low sugar lotus paste with melon seeds as my filling. Roll into round balls and wrap the bottom quarter of the ball with the darkest colour. Using a tear-drop shaped cutter, cut many pieces that is sufficient to go round the ball. Attach each and every pieces, layer by layer, from darkest to the lightest colour.
Snowskin recipe is adapted and modified from Kwong Cheong Thye:
Ingredients:
150g Fried Glutinous Rice Flour
200g Icing Sugar ***
65g Shortening (I used 50g)
150g Cold Drinking water
1/2 tsp Lychee flavouring
Directions:
- Sieve flour and icing sugar into a bowl
- Add shortening followed by water and essence
- Mix until well combined and a soft dough is form
- Set dough aside for about 20 minutes
- Roll out the dough and cut out tear drop shapes (from darkest to lightest tone)
- Attach one by one until you complete one round.
- Repeat every layer until you reach the top
*** Recommended to use pure icing sugar, I used SIS brand which I find it more refine as compared to other brands with have higher content of corn starch.
