Homemade Snowskin Mooncakes

The Mid Autumn Festival is just around the corner and to be exact happening in less than a week time! Just weeks back (on the night of Singapore's General Election), I tried making snowskin mooncakes. 

Many baking enthusiasts have started making mooncakes, be it traditional type or snowskin type few months ago. Practice makes perfect :) 

After seeing so many homemade mooncakes post on the Facebook baking group, it sparked my curiosity. Hence, I went to find out how to make snowskin mooncake because everyone seemed to be doing it. It wasn't as difficult as I thought it will be because the ingredients are simple as it requires just a few items.

I even saw people making Hello Kitty shape snowskin mooncake and sharing it on Facebook. It looks just like those Hello Kitty mooncake that Breadtalk is selling(price near to $60 for 4 Hello Kitty moon cakes), totally not worth to buy it! Why not make it yourself? :) 

To be honest, the ingredients for mooncake are quite affordable and it can be used to make lots and lots of mooncake (especially the filling). 

It was a last minute decision to make snowskin mooncakes together with my BIL and SIL. They were already coming over for dinner on GE night and decided on cooking Army Stew for dinner (will blog about that some other time). Making mooncakes have been added to the itinerary since the mooncake mould came earlier than expected!

This is the mooncake mould which I've waited excitedly for :) 

The mould can be bought from here. They may not sell the mould at the cheapest price on Qoo10, but the delivery is really fast and the quality of the mould is as promised. No regrets paying slightly more for the fast delivery.

Hereby introducing you the ingredients we have used to make Snowskin Mooncake :)

Ingredients for Snowskin Mooncake:

1) Sugar Free Green Bean Paste

2) Sugar Free Red Bean Paste

3) Snowskin Premix

4) Shortening(the one in the tupperware)

5) Green Pandan and Purple Yam flavour coloring. 

All these can be bought from Phoon Huat. You may visit their website as they have lots of branches around Singapore. We decided to make 2 different flavors of mooncake hence that explains the 2 different coloring and 2 different paste. 

Phoon Huat has this snowskin premix which helps save time. If you do not wish to use the premix, you can actually substitute with Kao Fen( Glutinous Rice Flour) and Icing Sugar. The advantage of not using the premix will be you can adjust the amount of icing sugar to your own liking :) You can google for the quantity of each ingredient if you will like to. 

This is the quantity that we used for the mooncakes (Yields around 20 mini mooncakes, I can't remember exactly the quantity):

1) Snowskin Premix 290 gram

2) Shortening 56 gram (Can used slightly lesser as this is fats! But not too little if not the whole dough will be too dry )

3) Desired Coloring 10 gram.

4) Water 140ml.

The instructions is pretty simple and is as follow:

1) Pour out the snowskin premix into a bowl.

2) Mix coloring and water together.

3) Get ready the shortening while letting the dough to rest for 15mins.
4) Mix snowskin premix with coloring.
5) Add in shortening.
6) Prepare paste and divide into 24 gram each (we used 20gram each because we doesn't have a digital weighing scale).
7) Divide dough into 20 gram each.
8) Flatten the dough and wrap the filling in it.
9) Freeze it for roughly half and hour.

This is the video from Phoon Huat teaching you how to make snowskin mooncake. So for better illustration, you can watch it! :) 

After typing so much, here are some of the photos from behind the scene! We lay baking sheets all over the dining table to prevent dirtying it. We did all this while waiting for the announcement of GE results till the results are announced. The ingredients that we bought were enough for us to make lots of mooncake.

We took turns to knead the dough but frankly speaking, it requires some strength to do it. Not as easy as it seems on the video lol.I couldn't even out the coloring so I passed on to the next person to do it. So yea, you can imagine the dough went through quite a few of our hands lol!

Starting it was quite dry and we thought something went wrong. I remember at some point of time we added a little more shortening to reduce the dryness just so to get the smooth dough. 

The dough seems much better now. 

The only behind the scene photo. Our hands are all too oily! They may not look oily at all but it's actually very oily. In short, mooncakes are really sinful especially snowskin mooncakes! 

Our first batch. 

We didn't make the mooncakes that fast because there's only 1 mooncake mould so we took turns. 

And here comes the GE inspired mooncakes by the 2 guys lol. Seems like they got bored using the cute kind of mould.

No prize for guessing which political parties are those. :)

Another familiar looking political party logo.

The 2nd batch of mooncakes with a different coloring being used. 

More political parties' logo appearing lol. 

All the GE inspired mooncakes made that night. #GE2015

We did tried a few mooncakes that we have made and they tast better that what we expect (even though the appearance may not seems to be right lol). 

I gave it out to some friends who came to our house the very next day for wedding-related stuff and they praise that it was well made.

It seems that the mooncake making session was successful. Perhaps next year we should learn how to make durian snowksin mooncake instead because that will really save us lots of money then! 

That's all for my homemade mooncake entry and Happy Mid Autumn in advance!