Mooncakes - snow skin - durian flavoured

Phoon Huat's Snow Skin Premix

cold water

shortening

durian essence

• Didn't have yellow colouring this time otherwise would have added that - the finished product looks kinda anaemic.
• Premix contains cooked glutinous rice flour (aka gao(1) fen(3)), icing sugar, full cream milk powder and a stabiliser (whatever that is). Can make it from scratch but I didn't have success with that last year so...
• Might be a good idea to add some sort of essence, even if the mooncake is supposed to be a "plain" one, cos the skin smells, well, "uninteresting", "not very nice", "raw"...take your pick...

Mix & leave aside for bout 30 mins

Mix mashed durian flesh with lotus seed paste and form into balls the size of ping pong balls.

Might be a good idea to refrigerate the mixture 1st, before forming the balls (cos it sure is sticky)

Form the mooncake and press into the mould.
When knocking it out of the mould, use much less force than you would if forming a mooncake for baking cos it's really soft)

Dust the moulded mooncakes with a bit of gao fen.
Keep refrigerated.

Ta da!