Snow Skin Green Tea Mooncake recipe

Amy Beh | Kuali, The Star | Wed Sep 1 2010

Malaysia, September 1, 2010

Time flies and the Mid-Autumn Festival is here again. This year it falls on Sept 22. Everyone is keen to make their own mooncakes.

Be it as gifts for relatives, friends or associates or even for your own consumption, mooncakes are always a joy for everyone. Try your hand at these lovely mooncakes.

Ingredients

For snow skin:

1g jasmine tea leaves
130ml hot water
110g koh fun
35g cooked cornflour
40g icing sugar
35g shortening

Filling (both pastes are available at baking supply shops):

White lotus paste
Green tea lotus paste

Method

To make snow skin:

Steep jasmine tea leaves in hot water for 2-3 minutes. Blend hot tea in a food processor for 10-20 seconds. Chill the blended tea for 20 minutes. Pour out 125ml tea for use in the mooncake skin.

Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and pour in the tea. Mix into a soft and non-sticky dough. (Use immediately.) Weigh the skin dough into 50g per piece.

Weigh white lotus seed past into 50g each and green tea lotus paste into 80g each. Place white lotus seed paste on top of the green tea lotus paste. Make into a neat round ball.

To assemble the mooncake:

Take a piece of snow skin and wrap around the filling. Lightly dust your hands with extra koh fun. Press the completed dough into a wooden mooncake mould. Knock the mound against the table to dislodge the mooncake. Keep refrigerated.