Mini Pandan Flavoured Snowskin Mooncake

Ingredients

Snowskin Dough

• 150g Fried Glutinous rice flour [You will need about another 5og for dusting so prepare 200g flour]
• 200g icing sugar
• 100g shortening
• 180ml water
• 3 pandan leaves
• 1 teaspoon pandan paste
• Mooncake Mould
  

Filling

• 500g lotus paste
• 50g melon seed

Method

1. Boil water with pandan leaves for 10 minutes. [Tie it into a knot for enhanced flavour.]
2. Heat off and leave to cool.
3. Add in pandan paste and stir till dissolved. Leave in refrigerator to chill.
4. Toast melon seeds 160°C for 10 mins.
5. Add the seeds with lotus paste and form into each small ball. [About 30g should be sufficient]
6. Sift icing sugar into a large mixing bowl.
7. Add fried glutinous rice flour, snow powder and shortening into the bowl. [Fried rice flour is used as it is cooked beforehand already and recipe does not require cooking of the mooncake.]
8. Mix well with spatula till mixture turns into bread crumb texture.
9. Add the cold pandan water into crumb-like flour mixture and mix well with spatula to form soft dough.
10. Remove the soft dough from mixing bowl and place it on a floured [With the fried glutinous rice flour] table top.
11. Knead for few seconds to form into a dough ball. [Over kneading will cause the dough to be tough due to gluten formation!]
12. Rest dough for 10 minutes.
13. Roll out the dough into thin layer using a rolling pint. [The thinner the better. Imagine eating the mooncake with a thick skin. :S]
14. Cut out some dough and fill in lotus paste.
15. Seal and shape it into ball.
16. Lightly pat just a little fried glutinous rice flour all over the cake ball and flour the mooncake mould.
17. Place cake ball into the mould and press firmly. [The imprint of the mould would be faint if insufficient strength is used to press firmly.]
18. Over turn the mould to knock the cake out from mould.
19. Repeat steps till all ingredients used and refrigerate.
20. Serve chilled.

Boiled pandan leave and water.

Add pandan paste.

Toasted melon seeds.

Lotus paste and melon seed mixture shaped.
[Add desired amount of melon seed. If dont like, dont add! :) ]

Sift icing sugar.

Mixture of sugar, flour and shortening.

Mixed into breadcrumb texture.

Add pandan mixture that was chilled.

Mixed to a soft dough.

Flour tabletop and knead dough.

Kneaded dough. :)

Cut dough into desired size and place lotus ball mixture.

Seal it up carefully.
[If not you'll have lotus paste peeking out of the surface!]

Place the cake call into the mould and press firmly.

A finished pandan flavoured snowskin mooncake!

Makes about 30 mini mooncake.