Colorful snowskin mooncakes

Overview

If you don’t like the sweetness of Cantonese-style mooncakes, then snowskin mooncakes are a good choice. They taste soft, glutinous and sweet but not greasy. The snowskin mooncakes sold outside are expensive, so make them yourself!

Tags

• pastries
• mid-autumn festival
• chengfen
• cocoa powder
• glutinous rice flour
• matcha powder
• pumpkin powder
• purple sweet potato starch
• red yeast rice powder
• rice flour
• salad oil
• milk
• powdered sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Pour all the powder into a bowl and mix well

   

2. 2 Sieve it once

   

3. 3 Pour in the salad oil and mix well

   

4. 4 Pour in the milk three times

   

5. 5 Stir evenly without any powdery particles and let it sit for half an hour

   

6. 6 Strain and pour into a flat deep plate

   

7. 7 Boil the water in the pot, add the ice cream paste wrapped in plastic wrap, and poke a few small holes with a toothpick

   

8. 8 Steam over high heat for about 25 minutes, remove the plastic wrap and let cool slightly

   

9. 9 Use a spatula to mix evenly

   

10. 10 Wear disposable gloves and knead evenly

    

11. 11 Form into a large smooth dough and let cool

    

12. 12 Knead into long strips and divide into 25g small dough

    

13. 13 Take a small portion of dough and add a small amount of matcha powder

    

14. 14 Knead evenly

    

15. 15 Use cocoa powder, red yeast rice powder, purple sweet potato powder, and pumpkin powder in turn to knead into small doughs of five colors

    

16. 16 Divide the remaining dough into 25 grams of white dough

    

17. 17 Take a piece of white dough, flatten it and put on your favorite fillings (the ratio for a 50g snowskin mooncake is 1:1: 25g crust, 25g filling)

    

18. 18 Wrap well and roll into a round shape with the seam facing down

    

19. 19 Shake the mold with the fried Chengfen (in fact, the mold will not stick if you let it cool without using powder)

    

20. 20 Take out the flower pieces and fill them with colored ice skin (choose the color as you like)

    

21. 21 Add flower slices filled with colored ice skin and press on the white ice skin dumplings

    

22. 22 Make all the snow skins and mix and match the colors as you like. Use the remaining colored dough to make pure colored snow skin mooncakes. If the snow skin is not enough, you can add more fillings

    

23. 23 Finished product pictures

    

24. 24 Finished product pictures

    

25. 25 Finished product pictures

    

26. 26 Finished product pictures

    

27. 27 The packaging is more beautiful

    

28. 28 It’s more dignified to give as a gift