Sunday, August 17, 2008

Snow Skin Red Wine Mooncakes

Thanks Sharon for the lovely gift....a HELLO KITTY PLUNGER MOONCAKE MOULD...Wow, aren't they lovely??




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25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, so cute. Looks yummy... :)

August 17, 2008 11:24 pm
redsister said...

Hi Yochana,
It's cute. Where did you get this lovely mould? Children will love it.

August 18, 2008 8:48 am
Anonymous said...

Hi Aunt Yo,

Your hello kitty mooncakes look so nice to be eaten leh.

I try your steam moist chocolate cake during the weekend. It was very nice eat, my husband and children like it very much. But I have 1 problem is that after steaming for 1 1/2 hrs, the top part of the cake open up like a huat kueh. I follow your recipe but since my 9 inch sq pan cannot fix into my steamer, so I use a 8 inch round pan, the cake mixture reach my 8 inch round pan almost 90% before steam. And also i forget to cover my cake with an aluminmum foil. I use medium fire to steam the cake.

Aunt Yo can you advise why my cake open up at the top?
1. Is it my cake pan is too small for your recipe? If yes should I half the recipe?
2. Is it I never cover with alumimum foil.

At the end, i have to trim the top part of the cake and make rum ball, using your rum ball recipe. And my family and friends say is very nice.

Aunt Yo, may I also check with you, for baking and steaming how high should the cake mixture reach the cake pan before baking, is it same as the cup cake, 3/4 to the mould to achieve a nice cake same leve as the mould after bake. With this guide I will be able use any mould I have at home.

Thank you.

With Love,
Jacqueline

August 18, 2008 10:18 am
dt said...

hi,
The kitty look cute.
The red wine is added on the skin or the filling?

August 18, 2008 11:19 am
Anonymous said...

Nice mooncakes. Aunty, for the baked mooncakes, why does my mooncake skin comes out looking cracks?

August 18, 2008 12:03 pm
Anonymous said...

Beautiful mooncake Aunty, sooo cute...
Do you know where we can buy the Hello Kitty mooncake moulds Aunty???

Thank You and GBU
Racheline

August 18, 2008 12:48 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Rachaeline,

It's from Hong Kong.

rgds

August 18, 2008 1:02 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi delia,

It could be due to your egg glaze or your skin paste...something to do with the moon cake syrup or alkaline.

rgds

August 18, 2008 1:04 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi dtwhale,

the red wine is added into both the skin and the lotus paste.

rgds

August 18, 2008 1:06 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Jacqueline

I normally use high heat to steam all my cakes. Oh yes...your pan is too small and that caused the crack on top. YOu can either do half or 3/4 of the recipe.

Try to pour the batter to at least more than half but below the 3/4 level.

rgds

August 18, 2008 1:12 pm
Anonymous said...

Aunty,

When making butter cupcakes with butter cream frosting, do you suggest keeping it in the fridge? What about all other kinds of cakes? Why i'm asking is bec. I'm going to bake heaps for my son's school fete...so I need to store, but don't know whether to keep in fridge or not.

Help!

August 18, 2008 3:02 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Jenny,

Butter cream can be left outside at room temperature...no problem. Make sure your butter cream is well done...not watery and oily. It should be able to stand well in room temp.

rgds

August 18, 2008 6:04 pm
Anonymous said...

Hi Yochana,

You said butter cream should not be too watery or oily. So how long should we beat the butter & sugar? Pls. advise

anonymous

August 18, 2008 10:44 pm
Anonymous said...

Aunty,

Would you please ask where exactly in Hongkong? So that if i go to HK i could buy it :)

Thank You and GBU
Racheline

August 19, 2008 12:18 am
Anonymous said...

Hello again,
Can red wine alone make the lotus paste that red? I never thought lotus paste can be a different flavor...or a different color... btw, would you happen to have a recipe for strawberry snowskin with a fruity kind of filling? I've never tasted snowskins before, it's hard to find here in Florida. My daughter was introduced to snowskins once and she liked it, so this year I would like to satisfy her craving as well as mine, with your guidance, of course!! Thanks again, Anita

August 19, 2008 6:23 am
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Anita,

Oh poor thing...can you get Fried glutinous rice flour in Florida. Ours over here are specially imported from Hong Kong and Japan. You have to use this in order to make snow skin.

rgds

August 19, 2008 11:56 am
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi Rachaeline,

Go to Florence's blog - DO WHAT I LIKE. She has posted the shops that sells baking ingredients and utensils. Click onto it and you'll get all the shops name.

rgds

August 19, 2008 12:03 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi anonymous,

You have to judge yourself because it normally depends on your room temperature. Don't use 100% butter, try to use Marianne margarine or Kake margerine with butter (50/50).

rgds

August 19, 2008 12:11 pm
Anonymous said...

Thank You Aunty :)

GBU
Racheline

August 19, 2008 12:13 pm
Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty,
Cld u share the skin & filling proportion for this kitty plunger u use?

Or how many gm for skin & filling for 63g mould & 165g mould? thks alot

lyn

August 27, 2008 4:38 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi lyn,

Snow skin proportion is different from baked mooncakes.

For snow skin:
165 gm plunger should be 65 skin and 100 for fillings. Baked mooncakes will be 45 gm skin and 125 gm. lotus paste.

For 63 gm plunger, snow skin will be about 28 gm and the rest will be lotus paste.

rgds

August 27, 2008 5:35 pm
Anonymous said...

XIE XIE =)

August 28, 2008 11:00 am
Anonymous said...

HELLO KITTY! =)
Did you get the mould from Singapore?

August 31, 2008 1:59 pm
Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty,
May i ask, for a 125g plunger with adjustable height, how many gm of skin & filling for a bake mooncake?

thks alot
linda

September 01, 2008 4:21 pm
Aunty Yochana said...

Hi linda,

it depends on whether you like to have a thinner skin or a thicker skin. Here is a rough guide: Use 30 gm. skin and the filling use 95 gm. or you can use 35 gm. skin and the fillings 90 gm.

rgds

September 01, 2008 7:50 pm

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