Snowskin Mooncake Recipe - step by step guide with photos!

Do you remember that I will be sharing on 4 recipes in my next few posts to come from the post dated 24th August? 

1st recipe: KCT's Taiwan Pinpe Premix

2nd recipe: Phoon Huat's Snowskin Premix 
3rd recipe: KCT's Fried Glutinous Flour
4th recipe: Phoon Huat's Fried Glutinous Flour

This post will be on the 1st recipe which is using KCT's Taiwan Pinpe Premix. I read through many recipes and also looked closely at their mooncakes on many websites for days as I saw some were either too oily or has too much lumps of shortening on the mooncake.

I am so glad to say that this improvised snowskin mooncake recipe of mine turned out very well! 

Pretty, isn't it?

Homemade Snowskin Mooncake Recipes

I always go 'WOWWW" to snow skin moon cakes!

And I always thought that it's expensive, hard to master and that baking is involved!

Never did I know it's so easy!

Here's the recipe to make 2 small little mini mooncakes!

Ingredients for the snow skin:

(1) 25g Kao fen (fried glutinous rice flour)

(2) 40g Icing Sugar

(3) 10g shortening (vegetable oil)

(4) 30g Milk (you may also use water)

(4) 2 drops of Colour dye

Ingredients for the fillings:

(1) 25g Redman Pandan Lotus Paste

(2) 0.5 tsp Melon seeds (toasted)

Step 1: Weigh the Kaofen, icing sugar and shortening.

Step 2: Use your fingers to mix the mixture and make sure the shortening is mixed thoroughly.

Step 3: Make a dent in the middle of the mixture and add in the milk.

Step 4: Use your fingers to gently cover the milk.

Step 5: Once it’s thoroughly covered, add the colour dye.

Step 6: Use your fingers and your knuckles to mix the dough until 95% of flour is taken up and only 5% is left on the container.

Step 7: Make two 25g of snowskin

Step 8: Mould the fillings into 25g as well and add in the melon seeds, be sure to mix it thoroughly instead of letting the melon seeds concentrate in the middle.

Step 9: Rub the snowskin onto your palm and add in the fillings.

Step 10: There you go into the mooncake mould and TADA.

Note: Do not use your palm/ jumble up the sequence as that would cause an increase in temperature and then it would affect the quality of your mooncake!

Mini Snowskin mooncake!

Next up.. Shanghai Walnut Mooncake! Stay tuned!