kids say the darndest things!

over tea when the family sat down sampling mooncakes i made over the weekend. The father asked the children the tradition of Mid Autumn Festival.
my little one said this tradition came about as there was a bunny making mooncakes in the moon....(hm...i wondered where he gotten this idea from!) The older two immediately said mummy must be that bunny that made mooncakes then and the whole gang just blasted into laughter. Me, wordless!
so, me aka that bunny presents you my second round of Rose mooncakes made in moon kitchen.
Sigh, kids really say the darndest things! It was a good laugh tho.

Rose Snowskin Mooncakes (II)

Ingredients:

(A) 150g koh fun

      150g icing sugar ( i have reduced it 120g for this batch)

        50g shortening

(B) 180ml iced water
      * 1/4tsp Rose water

for filling

about 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. i have increased the Rose water to 1/4tsp this round, hence the colour of pink wasn't as pale as compared with the first batch. 

Recipe reference & adapted : Y3K cookbook

                                              My secret recipes series volume 11