Snowskin Mooncake Recipe

This is an easy to make (definitely more cost saving) for the mooncake festival if you're on a tight budget.

Before you start, you need to buy the "stamps" or "moulds" to make the pretty designs on your mooncake.

Ingredients:
75g fried glutinous rice flour (Koh fun)
90g icing sugar
33g shortening (do not put in fridge)
75g cold drinking water (water with ice if you like, but be careful of the volume)
1/2 tsp condensed milk
1-2 tsp vanilla essence
colouring/flavouring (I use green tea powder)
Kuaci (melon seeds) - optional
Lotus paste/red bean paste (Bought in packets in bake shops)
Salted egg yolks - optional

Method:

1. Sift koh fun and icing sugar in a large mixing bowl
2. Scoop up shortening into cubes with a teaspoon and add into the sifted mixture. Mix until you get a crumb like texture.
3. Add condensed milk, vanilla essence and colouring/flavouring (I use about 2 tbsp green tea powder). Add water a bit at a time until finish and mix to form a dough. Clump the flour together and knead until you get a smooth dough.
4. Set dough aside for 20 minutes.
5. Using a tablespoon, scoop out filling (about half a tablespoon) and form small balls with your hands. (preferably 30g each). If you want, put kuaci inside the filling and roll it into shape.
6. After the dough is set, tear up the dough (relative to filling) about 20g each and knead before use. Make a ball of dough. Flour the table and with your hands, or on your palm, flatten the ball of dough to a disc.
7. Place the dough on your hand and the ball of filling in the center of the dough. Wrap up the filling with the dough
8. Cover the filling completely with the dough and make round balls. Dust the balls with the koh fun flour.
9. With an appropriate size of stamp or mould, put the ball under the mould, press it in (or onto the table with the mould) and push the lever. Lift from table and push the dough out and ta-dah!