All about Cakes & Cookies Baking

[worldangel]

Happy Mama:

Hi worldangel, your mooncakes look so yummy. I love the sweet pastel colours of your mooncakes. :love:

Do you mind sharing the recipe with me please? :please:

One question... You mentioned as long as we get the right type of mould.... What is considered the right type of mould? Wooden or plastic or those piston-like where you push out the mooncakes? Thank you.

Thanks! I used pandan extract (very small drop) to achieve the green colour, red and yellow colouring to achieve the other two colours.

I got the recipe from here: http://auntyyochana.blogspot.sg/2006/09/rainbow-ice-cream-soda-snow-skin.html I modified the recipe a bit by mixing the ice cream soda with water (180ml ice cream soda, 20ml water) to reduce the sweetness.

I use the piston-like mould which you can get from Sun Lik/Bake King. I find these easier to use as compared to the traditional wooden/plastic moulds as my mooncakes always ended up sticking to the mould and tearing when I tried to knock them out.

[Happy Mama]

worldangel:

Thanks! I used pandan extract (very small drop) to achieve the green colour, red and yellow colouring to achieve the other two colours.


I got the recipe from here: http://auntyyochana.blogspot.sg/2006/09/rainbow-ice-cream-soda-snow-skin.html I modified the recipe a bit by mixing the ice cream soda with water (180ml ice cream soda, 20ml water) to reduce the sweetness.

I use the piston-like mould which you can get from Sun Lik/Bake King. I find these easier to use as compared to the traditional wooden/plastic moulds as my mooncakes always ended up sticking to the mould and tearing when I tried to knock them out.

Thanks worldangel. I noticed the recipe requires 200g of ice cream soda for the ice cream soda mooncake. In your case, it's a normal snow skin mooncake. So do I just omit the 200g of ice cream soda?

Also, what is tang mian fen? Can we find it at Phoon Huat / Sun Lik?

[worldangel]

Happy Mama:

worldangel:

Thanks! I used pandan extract (very small drop) to achieve the green colour, red and yellow colouring to achieve the other two colours.


I got the recipe from here: http://auntyyochana.blogspot.sg/2006/09/rainbow-ice-cream-soda-snow-skin.html I modified the recipe a bit by mixing the ice cream soda with water (180ml ice cream soda, 20ml water) to reduce the sweetness.

I use the piston-like mould which you can get from Sun Lik/Bake King. I find these easier to use as compared to the traditional wooden/plastic moulds as my mooncakes always ended up sticking to the mould and tearing when I tried to knock them out.

Thanks worldangel. I noticed the recipe requires 200g of ice cream soda for the ice cream soda mooncake. In your case, it's a normal snow skin mooncake. So do I just omit the 200g of ice cream soda?

Also, what is tang mian fen? Can we find it at Phoon Huat / Sun Lik?

Mine has ice cream soda as part of the ingredients as well. I have tried recipes which only call for icing sugar but ended up with cracked skin that doesn't stay soft and moist for long. I have kept this mooncake up to 5 days and it was still soft at that time.

I include the ice cream soda but I only use 180g of ice cream soda but mix in 20g of water, so total is 200g of liquid (ice cream soda mixed with water). I omitted tang mien fen (wheat flour) and it doesn't seem to affect the texture much. Should be able to find in Sun Lik or Phoon Huat if you want to include.

[Happy Mama]

worldangel:

Mine has ice cream soda as part of the ingredients as well. I have tried recipes which only call for icing sugar but ended up with cracked skin that doesn't stay soft and moist for long. I have kept this mooncake up to 5 days and it was still soft at that time.


I include the ice cream soda but I only use 180g of ice cream soda but mix in 20g of water, so total is 200g of liquid (ice cream soda mixed with water). I omitted tang mien fen (wheat flour) and it doesn't seem to affect the texture much. Should be able to find in Sun Lik or Phoon Huat if you want to include.

Thank you so much for your reply, worldangel. Sorry I have 2 more questions....

1) When you omit the wheat flour, can I say you use only 90g of glutinous flour? Or do you replace the 10g to make it 100g?

2) Is there any prefered brand for the ice cream soda?

:thankyou: once again.

[worldangel]

Happy Mama:

worldangel:

Mine has ice cream soda as part of the ingredients as well. I have tried recipes which only call for icing sugar but ended up with cracked skin that doesn't stay soft and moist for long. I have kept this mooncake up to 5 days and it was still soft at that time.


I include the ice cream soda but I only use 180g of ice cream soda but mix in 20g of water, so total is 200g of liquid (ice cream soda mixed with water). I omitted tang mien fen (wheat flour) and it doesn't seem to affect the texture much. Should be able to find in Sun Lik or Phoon Huat if you want to include.

Thank you so much for your reply, worldangel. Sorry I have 2 more questions....

1) When you omit the wheat flour, can I say you use only 90g of glutinous flour? Or do you replace the 10g to make it 100g?

2) Is there any prefered brand for the ice cream soda?

:thankyou: once again.

I let it remain at 90g. I have only used F&N brand so far cos that's the most easily available one. Hope this helps! Let me know how it turns out

[Happy Mama]

worldangel:

I let it remain at 90g. I have only used F&N brand so far cos that's the most easily available one. Hope this helps! Let me know how it turns out

Thanks! Got to find a day to buy the ingredients. Looks like Sun Lik has better lotus paste than Phoon Huat?

[peapot]

Luckily these days we have ready made lotus paste. Imagine if you need to do this by yourself…Aiyo a lot of hard work.

[worldangel]

So far the biggest selection of paste is available in KCT (3 minute walk from Aljunied MRT) so you might want to go there and take a look. They allow you to taste the paste before buying.


I just made another batch of snowskin mooncakes and this time instead of using 90g kou fen, I increased it to 100g. Surprisingly, the look of the skin is better and smoother now. It is also not as sticky so easier to come out from the mould. So you might want to increase kou fen to 100g if you are not using tang mien.

[dasalo]

peapot:

Luckily these days we have ready made lotus paste. Imagine if you need to do this by yourself...Aiyo a lot of hard work.

Peapot, homemade lotus paste has an extraordinary taste. I still make the paste if I homemake mooncakes.

Worldangel,

Just wondering, if you use \"Tang Mien fen, 澄面粉\", do you have to dry fry the flour first before you use? I understand \"kou fen\" has been cooked before, am I right?

[worldangel]

dasalo:

peapot:

Luckily these days we have ready made lotus paste. Imagine if you need to do this by yourself...Aiyo a lot of hard work.

Peapot, homemade lotus paste has an extraordinary taste. I still make the paste if I homemake mooncakes.

Worldangel,

Just wondering, if you use \"Tang Mien fen, 澄面粉\", do you have to dry fry the flour first before you use? I understand \"kou fen\" has been cooked before, am I right?

Yea, I don't think I will have the patience to make the paste myself.

Yes, kou fen has been fried before. I am not too sure whether you need to dry the tang mien flour or not. You can try one batch that hasn't been fried and one that has been to see the difference in the texture. Or you can just replace that amount with kou fen. I did that yesterday and the texture turns out smoother and less likely to stick to my mould.