Mid-Autumn Festival 2014 x Homemade Snowskin Mooncakes

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 

I was always a fan of mooncakes but never like how expensive they are sold in shops. 

Went online and search for recipes for try making my own version of snowskin mooncakes. 

Apparently the steps are really simple and it was like playing with Playdough.

Since I was back home, I dragged Mom to get the ingredients and started making them!

Guide to make Snowskin Mooncakes for Dummies: 

You can get everything from the ingredients store and the one I went even had the pastes ready made so it saves us time and we can easily skip that part *Cheatinggg

1. The Ingredients

Glutinous Rice Flour (Gao Fen)

Icing Sugar

Shortening

Water

Food Colouring

Toothpicks

Mooncake Mould

and lots of patience!

2. The Mixture

Depending how many flavors you will be making and the size my measurements below were enough to make 10 small and 5 large mooncakes:


200g Glutinous rice flour
200g Icing sugar
100g Shortening

Mix all three and whisk them thoroughly.

Prepare approximately 230ml of water and if you like,

add food coloring to have pretty pastel mooncakes!

*Tip: Food coloring can be strong, to achieve the pastel-like, use a toothpick and dip the coloring into the water to avoid the strong texture!

3. The Dough:

 Pour in the water into the mixture while whisking until you achieve a lightweight dough. This is where the fun comes in!

As for the ready-made paste, just roll them into little balls depending on the size of how you like your mooncakes to be, the filling should be 2 times smaller than your dough. 

For the dough,

roll and flatten them, add the filling into the center of the dough and wrap them into a bigger ball.

Avoid creases around the ball as it will result in cracks.

4. Almost there!

Prepare a plate of glutinous rice flour and roll the dough around it till its fluffy. 

Get your mooncake mould ready and place the balls into it!

Fill the dough into the mould and make sure it's pressed hard to achieve the mooncake shape! 

5. Voila! 

Serve them chilled and take a photo with fake flowers for your accomplishment :P

I hope this lousy guide will set you on your quest to make yummy mooncakes as mine turned out.. fine. 

Except the part where I missed out the fillings on one (or a few) of the mooncakes and serve them to my ex-colleaguessss 

(Hahaha so maybe baking isnt my forte, im workin on it :P)

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One thing I like about special occasions are Chinese celebrations. 

For some reason, there's always a thing to celebrate in the Chinese calender and dinner gatherings are always a must! :)

I had my dinner gathering earlier this year with a bunch of awesome ex-colleagues. 

Thumbs up for Carina for preparing everything and her Bf, Leon for letting us crash his place :)

#Carinaknowsbest

Flashback to a year ago and I had steamboat for dinner too with my homies back in Perth. 

It was great to see everyone again! :)

After dinner, we head down to lit up our lanterns!

There weren't any sticks provided on the lanterns so we had to go for an alternative by picking twigs/sticks to instead

which kinda explains why Eric has a big ass stick that could hold 3 lanterns. lol 

 Hope everyone had a good one!

Long ass post finally done,

Bai !