If you want more of a mochi-like, chewy and translucent skin, you need to essentially make mochi.
#Happy midautumn in cantonese skin
There are two main ways to make ice skin mooncakes depending on the texture you want. You can also buy Mochiko brand glutinous rice flour, which is available at many normal supermarkets Glutinous rice flour typically comes in these green bags in Asian supermarkets. Ideally, use premium or high density ice cream for better results. This is best done overnight because it takes ice cream awhile to freeze. To try to facilitate my mooncake folding (knowing that the ice cream would get soft fast), I decided to pre-shape ice cream balls to the right size and freeze them beforehand. I seriously wouldn't recommend it for a first time mooncake maker. Please note: ice cream can be very tricky to work with because it gets soft really fast. To me, it sounded like a dream: a mochi filled with whatever I wanted on the inside.īecause I am a masochist and wanted to try something really hard, I decided to try making these mooncakes filled with ice cream. Instead, they are made with a glutinous rice flour skin and filled with all different types of fillings (matcha, red bean, lotus seed paste, even ice cream or chocolate!). This year, I was intrigued by an alternate type of mooncake called a "snow skin" or "ice skin" mooncake. I do like the salty egg yolk "moon", but usually the sweetness of the paste overwhelms the egg yolk (unless, of course, you are eating a special egg yolk mooncake, which is smaller and is mostly egg yolk inside).
I find the lotus seed or red bean paste filling a bit too sweet, dense, and heavy. I've never been a huge fan of the traditional mooncake. Because I was a newbie, I decided to buy the plastic kind, which are easier to use because you can push out the mooncake more easily (like a push pop!). Traditionally, mooncake molds are carved out of wood. I ordered some plastic mooncake molds from Amazon. This year I decided to try making my own mooncakes (for the very first time!). In more recent times, people have gotten pretty creative with mooncakes, and all different flavors and shapes have popped up, such as green tea (matcha) ones, snow-skin "mochi" ones, and even chocolate covered ice cream filled ones! What's a mooncake? A mooncake is traditionally a pastry (shaped a bit like a hockey puck) that is filled with lotus seed paste and optionally one (or more) salted egg yolks (meant to represent the moon). Typically, people celebrate by feasting, visiting family, and giving each other mooncakes.
It always happens on the 15th day of the 8th month on the lunar calendar, which this year (2014) falls on September 8th (yesterday!).
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