flower bloom this season

Every year prior to Mid Autumn Festival, I will check out the Mooncake fair at Takashimaya.  And every year after the fair, I started to make plans for mooncake making. Not only it gets me into the "mooncake festival" mood, it also made me crave after all the mooncake testing. With that, the mooncake craze has started.
After my successful kick-start on my Flaky Yam Mooncake, I moved on to snowskin ones which I personally prefers.

Rose Snowskin Mooncakes (I)

Ingredients:

(A) 150g koh fun

      150g icing sugar

        50g shortening

(B) 180ml iced water
      * 1/8tsp Rose water

for filling

600g store bought pure lotus paste

20g toasted melon seeds

Method:

1. Toast the melon seeds and set aside.

2. Weigh lotus paste of 30g each. Add some toasted melon seeds, shape into rounds and set aside.

3. Sieve koh fun and icing sugar into a big bowl. Rub in the shortening and add in iced water mixed with rose water, mix to form a soft dough.
4. Remove and roll into a long strip. Scale at 25g each and roll into rounds. Flatten and wrap in lotus paste balls.
5. Place the moonies dough into a dusted mooncake mould. Press firmly, dislodge imprinted mooncake from mould.
6. Best served chilled.

* my addition

Recipe reference & adapted : Y3K cookbook

                                              My secret recipes series volume 11