First Attempt to make mooncakes- Traditional Mooncake and Snowskin

I was inspired to challenge myself to make mooncake this year. It was fun baking with my son. We had great time chatting while making the mooncakes. He was very helpful. He apportioned the fillings and pastry while I shape the mooncakes. We baked from afternoon to morning 3am. Altogether we made about 100 mooncakes. Mixtures of both traditional mooncake and snowskin, Though it was alot of hardwork, it's all worth it.

Here's the recipe:

Traditional mooncakes

500g plain flour
340g golden syrup
100g oil
2tsp alkaline water.

Mix the above ingredients.
Let is rest for at least 1 hour.
Divide into 20gram
Can make about 30 mooncakes

Im using a 50gm mooncake mold.
Apportion fillings 30gm and pastry 20gm

Fillings : Lotus/Pandan/Red bean ( Buy from Phoon Huat. Save alot of time!)

Wrap fillings with mooncake pastry. Roll into a ball and press it into mooncake mold.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree for 10 minutes
Remove and let it cool.
Brush the top with beaten egg. Bake again for another 10 to 15 mins until golden brown.
(Filter the egg first)


Snowskin mooncakes:

100 gram cooked glutinous rice flour ( koh fun)
135 gram icing sugar

25gram shortening

80ml cold water

3 different colours :
1) Lemon yellow and durian flavour. 2 tsp
2) Pink rose colouring . 2 tsp
3) Pandan flavour colouring 2 tsp

Fillings :
Red bean/ Pandan/Durian  (buy
 from Phoon huat. Save lots of time!)

Mix the ingredients together
Divide the dough into 20gram each
Divide the fillings into 30gram each

Flatten the snowskin and wrap the fillings with snowskin.
Press it into the mooncake mold.

Put the snowskin mooncake into the refrigerator .

Ta-da.. home made moocakes !
Happy Mooncake Festival. Have a special celebration  with your loved ones.