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MAKE IT YOURSELF: CHENDOL SNOWSKIN MOONCAKE
INGREDIENTS
For filling
5 Tbs red beans 100ml water
2 tsp sugar
7 attap seeds, patted dry and diced into 1cm cubes
360g store-bought chendol mooncake paste from Kwong Cheong Thye, 61 Lorong 27 Geylang
4 Tbs gula melaka, cut into 0.5cm pieces
For white-coloured dough
45g fried glutinous rice flour, from baking supplies shop
5g wheat starch
20g icing sugar
15g shortening
60g to 100g clear soft drink, such as 7-Up, chilled
For gula melaka dough
30g gula melaka, cut into 0.5cm pieces
10g water
45g fried glutinous rice flour
5g wheat starch
20g icing sugar
15g shortening
20g to 60g clear soft drink, chilled
DIRECTIONS
1. Place the red beans and water in a pot set over medium heat. Bring to a boil, turn the heat down to low and simmer for 25 minutes until the beans soften. Stir in sugar just before the end of the simmer. Drain and let it cool for 20 minutes. Pat the beans dry with kitchen towels.
2. In a mixing bowl, mix the cooked red beans and diced attap seeds with the chendol mooncake paste well with hands.
3. Roll the mooncake paste into 30g balls. Make a slight dent in the centre of each ball and place one tsp of gula melaka in it. Roll the paste so that the gula melaka is covered. Repeat with the rest of the mooncake paste and gula melaka. Place the balls on a plate, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
4. To make the white-coloured snowskin dough, sift the glutinous rice flour and wheat starch into a mixing bowl. Add icing sugar and mix well, and rub shortening into the flour mixture till the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
5. Pour the chilled soft drink into the batter in two equal portions, mixing the contents with hands after each addition, until they come together in a ball. Set aside.
6. To make the gula melaka dough, dissolve the 30g of gula melaka in the water in a pan set over low heat.
7. In another mixing bowl, sift glutinous rice flour and wheat starch. Add icing sugar and 5 Tbs of the gula melaka syrup and mix well. Rub shortening into flour mixture till mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
8. Pour the chilled soft drink into the batter in two equal portions, mixing with hands after each addition until it forms a ball.
9. Wrap both balls of dough in cling wrap separately and chill for about 30 minutes.
10. Remove the balls of dough and mooncake filling from the refrigerator. Divide each ball of dough into two even portions and roll out each portion on a flat surface until it is about 10cm long (below). Sprinkle some fried glutinous rice flour on the four pieces of dough to keep them from sticking.
11. Alternate a piece of white dough with a piece of gula melaka dough piece on a flat surface, and place the four pieces of dough close together.
12. Cut a 20g cross-section of the four pieces of dough. On a flat surface, use a rolling pin to roll the dough out till it is about 8cm in diameter.
13. Place a ball of mooncake filling in the centre of the dough and wrap it around the filling (above). Ensure that the filling is completely covered by the dough and shape it into a ball.
14. Dust mooncake mould that is 4cm tall and 5cm wide with fried glutinous rice flour. Press the filled dough ball into it gently, making sure the surface of the dough that is in contact with the patterned-face of the mould is smooth. Stop when the dough skin is level with the top of the mould.
15. Gently press the plunger of the mooncake mould downwards to remove the mooncake from the mould. Repeat for the other mooncakes.
16. Store the mooncakes in an air-tight container and refrigerate for two to three hours before serving.
Makes 12 to 15 mini mooncakes