Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Rainbow Ice-cream Soda snow skin mooncake



Ingredients:

90 gm. fried glutinous rice flour (Kao fen)
10 gm. tang mien flour
30 gm. shortening
40 gm. icing sugar
200 gm. ice-cream soda or 7-up
little pandan, pink, lemon yellow colouring

Filling:

600 gm. lotus paste
30 gm. melon seeds

Method:

(1) Sift the glutinous rice flour and wheat starch into a mould.
(2) Add in icing sugar and shortening and mix till thoroughly mixed.
(3) Pour in ice-cream soda and mix into a soft pliable dough.
(4) Divide dough into 4 portions. Add colouring to each portion, leaving one portion white.
(5) Place each dough between plastic sheets and roll into a rectangular flat piece of the same size. Stack the dough on top of one another, then roll into a swiss roll.
(6) Cut into 6 equal pieces. Divide the lotus paste fillings into 6 portions.
(7) Roll the spiral part into a flat piece and wrap with lotus paste filling. Press into a mooncake mould then knock out.
(8) Chill before serving.

55 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you need to steam the tang mien flour?

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi,

it's only 10 gm, you can steam if you want to... For me, I didn't steam it.

rgds.

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty,

I just discovered your wonderful, informative website. Can you tell me what's tang mien flour please?

Thank you,
Vicki

Aunty Yochana said...

qgsezsutang mien flour is wheat starch.

rgds

Aunty Yochana said...

vicki,

ignore the above reply.

Tang Mien flour is Wheat Starch. Can buy from anywhere even in the market stall or provision shop and supermarkets.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi

I've been reading your blog for some time and really find you amazing. You have very good hands at baking/cooking. Really impressed with the rainbow ice-cream soda mooncake. Yum Yum.

Lots to learn from you.

Best regards and take care.
Scarlet

Aunty Yochana said...

Thanks scarlet for your encouraging words and hope you enjoy yourself browsing through my blog.

rgds.

Amrita said...

Very good recipe..everyone should try...the skin stays babys bottom soft even after 4 days.....

Anonymous said...

Hi! I was wondering where you buy lotus paste & what kind of melon seeds you're supposed to use.

Anonymous said...

Hi! I was wondering where you buy lotus paste & what kind of melon seeds you're supposed to use.

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi candy,

I make my own lotus paste...recipe is in my blog. Melon seeds is bought from bakery marts like sun lik or phoon huat.

rgds

Anonymous said...

what is kao fen? I have tang mien flour here, but i have no idea about kao fen at all
yours-yoo lee

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi yoo_lee,

kao fen is fried glutinous rice flour. It's not tang mien flour. You can purchase it from Sun Lik or Kwong Cheong Thye.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Yochana,

I cannot find your blog on lotus paste, could you email me @ linda79@singnet.com.sg

Thanks a lot,
Linda
p.s.: Love your creative baking & cooking receipes.

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Linda,

Go to my Home page and click onto "Recipes by category" and search for Traditional Moon cakes. The lotus paste recipe is there.

Thanks for your compliments and have fun baking..
rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty Yo
I tried the orange poppy seed skin - but found the skin to be a tad on the "damp" side and not like those flour dusted type found on the market. Is it cos I did not flour my hands or I overhandled the dough?

Then if I want to add pandan juice to this rainbow recipe (such that the total amt of liquid is still 200 ml) can or not? If so, how many leaves n water am I supposed to use to blend the juice? For snowskin, liquid must be boiled is it?

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Mrs. Tan,


Next time add in a little more fried glutinous flour to avoid dampness. Just lightly flour your mould n hand will do.

Yes you can use pandan juice if you want.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty,

Will it be ok if i use 60g for skin and 100g for the fillings to make each of this mooncake?

Rgds,
Mei

Aunty Yochana said...

Yes Mei, that's correct.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty,

I'm really impressed with the numerous creations!

I tried this recipe but the skin turn hard after 1 refrigerate for 2 days... What could go wrong?

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi anonymous.

That's weird, mine is still soft in the fridge.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty,

Your creations look so lovely that it inspired me to try making mooncakes for the first time.

However my snowskin turn out to tast very "flour-y" and raw (did not add any flavouring), and the texture is very mushy too.

May I know how to overcome these 2 problems? Thanks!

Cheers,
O

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi O,

What fried glutinous rice flour did you use? Did you fry it yourself? You have to buy it from the shops. They called it "Kao fen", specially made for this pingpi mooncakes. Do not use the normal glutinous rice flour that is used for making nonya kueh.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty,

Could it be because I had the fan blowing on the mooncakes or I floured it too much?

Lyn

Aunty Yochana said...

Oh Lyn,

No need to use fan to blow it and try to use cooked / steamed flour to dust your snow skin.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi!

Will make sure the fan's not blowing when I try next time! =)

Lyn

Anonymous said...

Hi,
If omit the tang mien flour or need to substitute with 10g kao fun or tapioca flour?

Secondly, do we need to toast the melon seeds before use? thks

lyn

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Lyn,

Just totally omit the tang mien flour.

yes you need to roast the melon seeds.

rgds

Anonymous said...

aunty,

may i know wat the purpose of tang mien flour?


TQ

Doris

Anonymous said...

Hi..
I've just posted in another thread asking abt adding colour..

To make this rainbow skin..shld we just put in a few drops of colour directly on to the snow skin & knead till well mixed or shld mix e colour in some water 1st then pour into skin? thks

fans

Anonymous said...

Hi..
I've just posted in another thread asking abt adding colour..

To make this rainbow skin..shld we just put in a few drops of colour directly on to the snow skin & knead till well mixed or shld mix e colour in some water 1st then pour into skin? thks

fans

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi,

Both ways of adding colouring into the snow skin is acceptable but it will be much easier to add into the water then pour into the fried glutinous rice flour.

rgds

Anonymous said...

This mooncake is beautiful..=)

do you think i could omit 50ml(by the way, 200gm = 200ml?) of the ice cream sode and add in bailey's for added flavour instead?

by the way, any idea how to make an ice cream snowskin mooncake? was wondering how to shape it. sorry for so many questions! you really are very talented at doing all this..=)

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi anonymous,

yes you can sub with bailey's coffee.

yes 200 gm = 200 ml.


I have the agar agar ice cream mooncake but not the snow skin one.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty Yochana!

Happy Mid Autumn Festival to you and your family~ Many thanks for sharing all the delicious recipes! =) I made these with a couple of my close frens and we really had fun making them~ love the joyful colors! (^^,) but ours are not as pretty and defined as yours. But still it was well received! Thanks once again!

Amanda

Aunty Yochana said...

Congratulations Amanda,

Happy mid-autumn fest to you.

rgds

Kathryn said...

Hi, if i can't get any Kao Fen, can i use glutinous rice flour and fry it in the wok? by the way do you mind if i add your blog link in my blog at www.delikatzy.blogspot.com ?

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Kathryn

I've asked my friend who lives in Canada to try frying your own glutinous rice flour till it's cooked but whether it works or not , I'm not too sure. Why don't you try it out. I'm too lazy to fry. I buy it over the shelf. Yes of course you can link your blog to mine...

rgds

Kathryn said...

Thanks alot for your advice. I will link our blog to mine. I'm gonna try to the kou Fen... if really cant get then i will fry it. Hope i won't make a big mess.

-º- [V]a£Dre[W] -º- ® said...

Aunty,

I was wondering if I use the digital weighing scale to measure the skin and the filling, what are the proportions (in grams) of the skin to the filling for the small mould and the big mould, respectively?

Thank you so much for your help.

Coco said...

Hi,

i followed your recipe but the dough became too watery... i couldn't form any shape at all. do you know what went wrong?

regards,

Anonymous said...

Hi,

I went to Phoon Huat and got only kou fen which was labeled as glutinous rice flour. However it is from Thailand instead.

The salesperson said it can be used for snowskin mooncakes. Please advise. Should I only get kou fen from HK for the best effect?

regds,
christine

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi christine

please use "Fried glutinous rice flour". Try buying from sun lik or kwong cheong thye if Phoon Huat cannot help u.

rgds

delia said...

This is the softest snow skin i've ever made. Thanks for the wonderful recipe. Will be using this recipe from now on.

Anonymous said...

Many thanks for the recipe. I tried it out and it's much better than the premix. Now I need to work on my shaping. :)

christine

Anonymous said...

Hi,

i followed your recipe but the dough became too watery... i couldn't form any shape at all. do you know what went wrong?

regards,

Verlin said...

Hi! Aunty,

May I know Hong Kong "Cooked" Flour is it the same as Kao Fen?

Thank you!

Rgds,
Verlin :)

Aunty Yochana said...

Hi verlin

hong kong cooked flour is hong kong either steamed or baked while Kao fen is Fried glutinous rice flour. Both are entirely different.

rgds

Aquaria said...

Hi Aunty Yochana,

Had fun using your awesome recipe during a mooncake making session with friends yesterday. After refrigerating them over night, I noticed there are condensation in the air tight containers I use. Is there any way I can prevent condensation from forming? It happens no matter which snowskin recipe I uses. Is it advisable if I leave them at room temp over night? Or perhaps my fridge is too humid?

Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Hi, i tried your recipe. This is my first making mooncake. The dough that i got is oily & soft to handle as it keep breaking so i added some flour. Then the dough was a little drier but keep breaking too. Can i know what's the problems?

Anonymous said...

Hi, i tried your recipe. This is my first making mooncake. The dough that i got is oily & soft to handle as it keep breaking so i added some flour. Then the dough was a little drier but keep breaking too. Can i know what's the problems?

Anonymous said...

Hi, i tried your recipe. This is my first making mooncake. The dough that i got is oily & soft to handle as it keep breaking so i added some flour. Then the dough was a little drier but keep breaking too. Can i know what's the problems?

Unknown said...

hi Aunty, i tried using this recipe to make the rainbow mooncakes but the 200 gram of ice cream soda when i pour in it became watery it didnt become a dough. is the ice cream soda i used wrong? i use the F&N ice cream soda.

Unknown said...

hi Aunty yonchana,

I used this recipe to create the mooncake however when i pour the 200 gm of F&N ice cream soda it become so watery its basically milk water. how did u create into a dough. is it something wrong w the ice cream soda i bought?

Anonymous said...

Hi Yochana,

I have tried your recipe twice but could not get the correct texture.

200ml soda is too much as I will get a liquid batter instead of soft dough.

Which I have to add more fried glutinous flour to get a dough but the dough is too soft & will crack easily when handling.

Both end result of the mooncake will taste powdery.

Can I know what went wrong as I follow all your ingredients & measurement in the recipe.

Thanks