

Chewy Snow Skin Mooncake
It’s almost the time of year for mooncake as the Chinese will be celebrating Mid-Autumn festival (中秋节)on Sept 12.
The markets and stores are filled with various brands and forms of mooncake.
I have never attempted to make mooncake at home but my contributor Siew Loon is so talented that she even makes her own mooncake.
Check out these gorgeous looking snow skin mooncake.
Enjoy! (If you wish to buy mooncake, click the link.

Time flies and in 2 weeks time we will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn festival.
The history Mid-Autumn festival can be found at this link.
This year the Mid-Autumn festival will be celebrated on September 12.
This festival is also commonly known as Mooncake Festival.
There are so many varieties of mooncakes these days and honestly I have lost count of it.
Like every other year, I will make some mooncakes to be given away as gifts to friends and relatives.
Instead of the traditional mooncakes, there was a special request from a very close friend to do Snowskin Mooncakes with natural ingredients.
It came as a challenge, and I finally decided to use carrots, dragonfruits and screwpine leaves.
I thought it will be great to share with our Rasa Malaysia readers.

Snowskin mooncake is a non-baked mooncake which is commonly eaten cold and fresh.
It has a elastic, chewy and soft skin.
It is made of Cooked Glutinous Rice flour (Gao Fen) which you can get at any Asian grocery shops or bakery supply shops.
This is a must try recipe for those who loves Snowskin Mooncakes.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 456 calories per serving.
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Snow Skin Mooncake
Snow skin mooncake or crystal mooncake is a non-baked mooncake with a soft and chewy texture. It is eaten chilled, best eaten with a cup of hot Chinese tea.
Ingredients
Mooncake Skin:
- 130 g cooked glutinous rice flour, Gao Fen sifted
- 160 g powdered sugar
- 130 ml boiled carrot, dragonfruit juice or screwpine leaves juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh milk
- 1 tablespoon shortening I use Crisco
Filling:
- 1 kg Mooncake paste, Red Bean, Lotus, Green tea
- 80 g melon seeds, lightly toasted
Directions
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1Squeeze the juice and heat till boiling point. Cool the juice in fridge for about 4-6 hours.
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2Sieve together the icing sugar and cooked glutinous flour.
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3Add in the shortening. Combine until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
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4Add in the juice and milk. Mix to a soft and smooth dough. Let it rest for 10 minutes.
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5Divide the dough in 60 g (2 oz.) and roll into a ball. Wrap each ball with cling wrap until ready to use.
Filling:
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1Add melon seeds to mooncake paste.
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2Roll it tightly into a ball of 120 g (4 oz.) each.
To make Mooncakes:
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1Lightly dust hands with cooked glutinous rice flour. Flatten the dough. Place the filling into the center of the dough.
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2Wrapped it up tightly and seal the edges.
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3Put in a floured mooncake mould. Tap and remove it.
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4Chill for at least 6 hours before serving.
Recipe Notes
Note: The filling is available at bakery supply shop in Malaysia and Singapore. For those of you who wants to make the lotus paste, you can get the recipe from here.
Yeh Ximin
yukino
i wanna try on it looks so good
Chrissie Baker
Bee, These are absolutely beautiful. They don’t look real. You are amazing. They are works of art! I want to try one! ?
My Friend
Hi,
I would like to ask you how long do i need to knead before i get the soft and chewy elastic texture. And is 三洋糕粉 the correct flour to buy?
Thank you!
Jac
Do you have a video for this mooncake demo? Thanks!
Rasa Malaysia
No.
Juliet
Hi, I followed the recipe but there was too much liquid. The dough did not turn up but it was just molten liquid mass. What do you suggest I do? Maybe I should have added the liquid in parts and not altogether to form the dough? Thank you. Regards, juliet
tammy
I did tried, but the liquid is too much…. thanks