Green Tea Snowskin Mooncake
By: Anncoo
Published: Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 7:00pm

Ingredients




45g Ordinary Kao Fen
225g Snowskin flour
60g Icing sugar
45g Shortening
350g Water
1/2 tsp Green tea powder
Boil 350g water and green tea powder together and cover with lid, simmer at lower heat for 5 minutes, leave to cool. Stir well and measure green tea water to 300g.

Preparation

1 Combine kao fen and snowskin flour in a large bowl and set aside. 2 In a pot, mix 300g green tea water with icing sugar and shortening together and bring them to boil until shortening melted, stir with a hand whisk. 3 Pour the hot liquid mixture to the flour and use spatula to stir mixture to soft dough and leave dough to cool (you'll find the dough is quite oily at this time) then knead dough again to smooth. 4 Measure dough to 22g and wrap in 25g green tea lotus paste. 5 Roll it into a ball and dust with some cooked glutinous rice flour (Gao fen 糕粉). 6 Press firmly into mould ~~unmould it and store in airtight container. 7 Chill green tea snowskin mooncake before consume.

About

Added some green tea powder in the boiling water to get its natural colour and you can get the taste of mild green tea fragrant flavour with the combination of the green tea lotus paste ..... simply delicious