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Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake5

Snowy Mooncake, Using a Mooncake Mold

All measurements are based on a total weight of 50g per mooncake. 25g for the skin, 5g for the yolk and 20g for the filling. If you want to make them different sizes, adjust the ingredients accordingly.
The yield for this recipe is 21 50g mooncakes.
Approximate cost (CAD) $10
Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Wait Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Chinese
Servings 21 Pieces
Calories 246 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 525 g Snowy mooncake skin dough
  • 21 Reconstructed salted egg yolks (5g each)
  • 420 g Prepared filling
  • 2 tbsp Cooked glutinous rice flour

Instructions
 

Cooking glutinous rice flour

  • Use a dry, clean pan. Turn heat to medium and add glutinous rice flour
  • Stir for 1 minute and turn heat to low
  • Cover with lid for 3 minutes
  • Remove lid and stir for 1 minute. It’s cooked when the colour turns lightly yellow or when you can smell the glutinous rice aroma
  • Remove from heat and set aside

Putting the mooncake together

  • Prepare your filling by taking 20g of filling, roll into a ball and flatten with your palm
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step1
  • Place a reconstructed egg yolk in the center and cover it completely with the filling. Roll into a ball and set aside.
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  • Repeat until all the filling is rolled and put in the freezer for at least one hour For easier wrapping
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step3
  • Optional: use food colouring to colour all or part of your dough. Here are some samples of how you can use colour in your mooncakes
  • Roll the snowy mooncake skin dough into a log shape and cut them into 25g pieces. Roll them into balls. Put under plastic wrap to prevent drying out Skin to filling ratio is 1:1 (filling includes egg yolk). Adjust weights if your mold is not for 50g mooncakes
  • Take one skin dough ball and flatten in the palms of your hands
  • Put the filling in the middle of the flattened skin and wrap the filling
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step7
  • Close all openings by pressing and pinching the edges together.
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step8
  • Roll in your palms until smooth
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step9
  • Roll the mooncake in a bowl with cooked glutinous rice flour
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step10
  • Then roll in your palms to even out the cooked glutinous rice flour Only a light layer of flour is needed
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step11
  • Dust the inside of the mold with cooked glutinous rice flour
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step12
  • Put it into the mold. Do not force the mooncake into the mold is it doesn’t fit. Reshape it vertically to fit the mold
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step13
  • Hold the mold base with one hand and press with the other
  • Once the stamp presses on the mooncake, press down another 5-6mm and you will feel additional tension on the press
  • Now lift the base and keep pressing until mooncake comes out
    Auntie Emilys Kitchen-Snowy Mooncake-Mold-Step16
  • Done

Nutrition

Calories: 246kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 6gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 3gCholesterol: 58mgSodium: 680mgPotassium: 90mgFiber: 2gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 160IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 116mgIron: 5mg
Keyword Mooncake
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