Purple Sweet Potato Two-Tone Snow Skin Mooncake
With mooncake season here again, I got busy and made a few snow skin mooncakes. I only had a limited amount of ingredients at home, so I made just five or six.
Ingredients
Glutinous rice flour
25g
Rice flour
25g
Wheat starch
18g
Cooking oil
13g
Milk
80g
Sugar
1 small spoon
Milk
to taste
Small purple sweet potatoes
2
Cocoa powder
A pinch
Instructions
1
Step 1
Measure out the glutinous rice flour, rice flour, and wheat starch, then mix them together.
2
Step 2
Add milk, corn oil, and sugar to the flour mixture.
3
Step 3
Stir well until combined.
4
Step 4
Cover with plastic wrap and steam in a steamer for 25 minutes.
5
Step 5
Remove and use chopsticks to stir a few times, gather into a ball, and let cool slightly.
6
Step 6
Knead on a silicone mat until smooth.
7
Step 7
Take a small portion of dough, knead in some cocoa powder to get a small piece of cocoa-colored dough.
8
Step 8
Bake the purple sweet potatoes until cooked.
9
Step 9
Peel the purple sweet potatoes and place the flesh in a bowl.
10
Step 10
Add an appropriate amount of milk. You can also add honey or condensed milk, and add more sugar if it's not sweet enough.
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Step 11
Stir and mash into a paste.
12
Step 12
Roll the purple sweet potato filling into small balls.
13
Step 13
Divide the white dough into 6 equal portions, roll each into a ball, flatten one portion, and place the filling inside.
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Step 14
Push the edges up so the dough wraps around the filling, then seal the opening.
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Step 15
Take a small piece of cocoa-colored dough and press it onto the floral pattern of the mooncake mold.
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Step 16
Place the wrapped mooncake inside.
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Step 17
Press with the mooncake mold to shape the mooncake.
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Step 18
Once all are done, the size of the cocoa-colored dough can vary as you like.
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Step 19
Chill briefly before serving.
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Step 20
Delicious!
