Hamster Snow Skin Mooncake
Happy mid-autumn dayyy 🌕🍂
Prep. Time: 3 hours
Cooking Time: 2 hours
Serving: 12 servings
Ingredients
Wrapper
- 35 g. Glutinous flour
- 35 g. Rice flour
- 20 g. Wheat starch / Corn starch
- 20 g. Sugar
- 140 g. Milk
- 15 g. Condensed milk
- 20 g. Vegetable oil
- Orange Food gel colouring (Wilton - Copper)
- Cooked Glutinous flour for dusting
- Black sesame
Mung bean paste
- 100 g. Mung bean
- 300 g. Water for boiling
- 25 g. Unsalted butter
- 50 g. Sugar
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
Tools
- Mix bowl
- Mass Sieve
- Rolling pin
- Sauce pan
- Spatula
- Blender or Food processor
- Chopstick
Instructions
Mung bean paste
Soak Mung beans in water at least 3 hours or overnight before cooking.
Place water into sauce pan. Once the water is simmering. Add soaked Mung beans, reduce to medium - low heat. Cook for 30 minutes or until the beans can be easily mashed. Drain off water.
Use blender or food processor to grind the beans.
Place the puree into the pan. Add butter, sugar and salt. Stir over low heat until the mixture dried up; the mixture must be not stick to the pan, smooth and shiny.
Cool completely before divide into 12 equal balls.
Wrapper
Add wrapper ingredients into mix bowl, stir until combined.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Stream for 20 minutes or until cooked. You can also cook in microwave on 500 watt for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and chill until warmed to touch.
Knead into smooth dough.
To make coloured dough. Divide 15 g. of the dough. Add food gel colouring. Mix until the colour become even. Divide into 12 small doughs.
Divide remained plain dough into 12 equal doughs. Rub into smooth balls.
Assembly
Flatten plain dough into a round wrapper. Place coloured dough in the middle. Using finger, press the dough tightly.
Add the filling in middle of the wrapper. Gently push the wrapper upwards to tightly cover the filling. Seal at the top. Roll the assembled ball in the cooked glutinous flour. Rub off excess flour.
Using chopstick, stab on top of the mooncake to make the ears.
Tap black sesame on it to make eyes.
Tips
- You can also use corn starch 1:1 ratio to substitute wheat starch.
- Another alternative replacement of wheat starch is Tapioca starch. The ratio is 1:2 that means using 2 g. of tapioca starch for every 1 g. of wheat starch.
Special Credit
The original recipe from