Chinese people typically eat snow skin mooncakes, also known as snowy mooncakes, ice skin mooncakes, or crystal mooncakes, during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Non-baked mooncakes called snow skins are a Hong Kong specialty. Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia are some places where you can find mooncakes with snow skin. The major ingredients of Snow Skin Mooncake are glutinous rice, flour, sugar, milk, vegetable oil, and mung bean.
Snow Skin Mooncake Cake Recipe
Ingredients
For the dough wrapper
- 144 g rice flour
- 144 g glutinous rice flour
- 72 g cornstarch
- 120 g icing sugar
- 420 g whole milk
- 65 g vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 tablespoon cornstarch, for dusting
Instructions
- Sift and combine all the dry ingredients for the dough until well combined.
- In a another bowl, combine the milk and oil. Before thoroughly combining, add the vanilla essence.
- Before adding the wet mixture, create a well in the center of the dry mixture. Mix in all of the wet mixes gradually by adding a few spoonfuls at a time. Make care to whisk thoroughly each time to create a thin, runny batter.
- In a clean basin, strain the mixture. until fully done, cover and steam (up to 20 minutes).
- Create a soft dough ball by kneading the heated batter. Then, let it chill for at least 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Notes
- Carbohydrates: 24g
- Protein: 3g
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Cholesterol: 5mg
- Sodium: 68mg
- Potassium: 105mg
- Fiber: 1g
- Sugar: 8g
- Vitamin A: 118IU
- Calcium: 28mg
- Iron: 1mg
Final Thought:
The mooncake world has never seen anything like the snow skin mooncakes! Instead of the usual golden brown pastry, they are pristine white, and people are crazy about them. I knew I had to create the Woks of Life version of the recipe because the Mid-Autumn Festival was quickly approaching.