The mid-autumn festival is coming up and that means mooncakes mooncakes and more expensive mooncakes. Practically the box is worth $30 and the mooncakes are $10. The baked ones are so expensive and it would be a waste to buy a box that's not worth your money, so I decided to make them from scratch.
After looking at the ingredients for the traditional baked ones, I switched to make the snowskin ones instead. The traditional ones uses so much butter and it's a much longer process to make the egg yolk and filling.Snowskin mooncakes in the other hand can have a lot of variety. They can be chocolate, fruit, or any of the powdered flavors (green tea, sesame, custard) The filling also has lots of choices: red bean, ice cream, taro, chocolate, you name it!
I looked through some recipes, and much of the recipes I found were questionable. The ones with the store bought fried rice flour and shortening is just gross. Who wants to eat raw shortening...not me
Recipe Source B" Christine
Anyway it came down to two recipes: Top(trial A and bottom Trial B). Although "A" isn't as white, it certainly is tastier and easier to work with. The dough isn't as sticky and really easy to work with. I just need to get better at wrapping them.
*Update 9/6/13
After a few days in the refrigerator
"A" got tougher and reduced a bit in flavor
"B" remained white, stuck to teeth, flavor remained the same
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