FLAKY SKIN APPLE MOONCAKE

Mooncake time! Slurp! Slurp!

This year, I am going to make my own Purple Sweet Potato filling. 

Recipe for filling:
1kg purple sweet potato, peeled
150-180g cooking oil
100g sugar (according to your liking)
50g wheat starch flour, sift
80-120g melon seeds

Method:
1. Slice the roots thin to allow quicker steam process.
2. Place in steamer / wok and steam for 15 min.
3. Mash the root.
4. In a wok, add oil, sugar,flour and mashed roots and fry over medium fire until well mixed. Cool completely.

 No machine to help me, so mash it manually. Not difficult :)

Frying the beautiful root

Roll a small ball in hand to check if oil is enough. It should be when a little oil is stained on palm.

5. Bake melon seed in oven at 120C for about 10 min. Leave to cool.

6. Stir melon seed into mashed potato, roll into 20 balls (about 55g each). (Or you can keep in fridge until you are ready to use.) 

reminds me of dinosaur eggs. =}

Flaky Skin Apple Mooncake Recipe:
(Set of 10 mooncake skins, I doubled ingredients to make 20)
Skin A (水皮):
115g plain flour
35g oil
55g water mixed with 1 tsp malt (can be replaced by sugar)

Mix above into dough. Let it rest for 30min,

Skin B (油皮):
130g plain flour
55g shortening
15g oil

Press into a dough. Split into 3 balls, add colours yellow, red and green. (If the dough gets too soft, chill in fridge for 10 mins)

 Inside bowl: Skin B. Outside bowl is Skin A

 Roll Skin A into rectangle.

 Press coloured Skin B onto Skin A

Fold 1/3 upwards (below green), 1/3 left and 1/3 right

 Roll out the skin

 Roll the dough downwards to become a coiled log (starting from red)

Cut into 10 equal pieces (should be about 3cm thick per piece)

 Press down and roll flat. Wrap the filling and seal at bottom.

With your pinkie, poke a small dent on top, use cloves as the stem, and some green Skin B as leaves. (my 4 year old's station)

Bake at 170C for about 15 mins, or when the flakes appear.

 Done  =)