Passion Fruit Snow Skin Mooncake [2013]

A lovely natural yellow colour snow skin mooncake using fruit juice.  I used passion fruits for the colour, fragrance and tangy taste.  It's not necessary to add essence.

I used this ping pei skin to wrap Apple flavour mooncake paste [store bought]. Couldn't take cross section pictures of these mooncakes cos' they are for giveaways [will try to take the pictures at my friend's place].  However, I got to try the taste of the ping pei skin from the smaller mooncakes which I made from leftover dough.  It's good.

Ingredients
[makes 5 pieces - dough weighs 300 gm] 

90 gm cooked glutinous flour [kao fun]

75 gm icing sugar

90 ml iced passion fruit juice [about 2 passion fruits, add some water]*

20 gm shortening

* press out the juice, discard the seeds and add more water if necessary to obtain about 90 ml liquid.  Refrigerate until required.

1. Sift icing sugar with kao fun into a mixing bowl.
2. Rub in shortening with your finger tips until fine grains formed.
3. Stir in the iced cold passion fruit juice/water.  Mix and combine into a soft dough.
4. Cover and leave aside to rest for about 30 minutes.
5. Roll into a long log and cut into 5 equal portions [about 60 gm/piece].
6. Roll each piece into a ball and flatten it slightly.  Use it to wrap any filling of your choice.
7. Roll into a ball, press neatly into mooncake mold.  Knock out to dislodge the ping pei mooncake and place in a plastic casing.
8. Chill ping pei mooncake in the refrigerator.
   
   
   
   
   
   Notes:Any excess or leftover ping pei skin can be combined and use to make smaller ping pei mooncakes.