Thursday, September 4, 2008

Pandan Snow Skin Mooncake





Recipe

Ingredients
105g kao fen (cooked glutinous rice flour)
30g shortening
95g icing sugar
1tbsp fresh milk/evaporated milk
100g water
60g pandan juice
1/2tsp pandan essence

Filling
400g lotus paste

Dusting
50g tapioca flour/Hong Kong flour
(steamed for 10mins, cool and sift twice)

Steps:
Dough:
1. Sift kao fen and icing sugar together.
2. Rub in shortening into the flour mixture until it resemble bread crumb.
3. Mix all the liquid and essence together.
4. Add in liquid mixture into the flour mixture and mix to form soft dough. Do not overmix. (You may need more or less liquid depend on the quality of the flour. Dough will look rough but soft in texture.)
5. Cover the dough and rest in the fridge for 15mins.

Filling:
1. Divide the lotus paste into 10 portions of 40g each.
2. Roll them into balls.

Shaping:
1. Divide dough into 10 portions of 37g each.
2. Dust the surface, rolling pin and mould lightly with flour.
3. Roll out the dough, leave the centre slightly thicker than the edge.
4. Wrap the dough with the lotus paste and seal the edges.
5. Press into the mould and plunge it out slowly.
6. Use a brush to brush away excess flour around the mooncake.
7. Chill in the fridge and serve.

Note: Weight of the skin and filling depend on the size of the mould.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Happy Flour,

Can I use my mixer instead of rubbing in method ?

Ling

Happy Flour said...

Hi Ling,

Yes, you can use mixer but do not over mix, the dough will become rubbery and hard.

Anonymous said...

Hi Happy Flour,

Glad that mixer can be used for mooncakes. btw, is it using dough hook or flat beater ?

And also the kao fen- what brand did you use ? can I buy from ntuc ?

Very excited to try this out.

Cheers.
Ling

Happy Flour said...

Hi Ling,

Just use a K beater. I bought the Kao Fen from Sun Lik. I don't think NTUC carry Kao Fen.

Baking Scientist said...

Hello Happy Flour,

Thanks for sharing! do you prepare the pandan juice by blending and squeezing the pandan leaves?

Happy Flour said...

Hi Baking Scientist,

Simply blend few blade of pandan leaves with small amount of water then strain it to get pandan juice.