i think baking has become part of my life.. i'm like doing something almost once a week!
suddenly itchy backside.. thought of making snowskin mooncake.. and not just any snowskin mooncake, i really love the one my friend, Carol, makes! understand that she doesn't really bake to sell anymore, so i thick-skin go ask her for recipe and she willingly obliged! WAH SO HAPPY LEH!
she kept reassuring me that it's a foolproof recipe and indeed! only thing was, i didn't know what proportion of skin to wrap the filling with.. initially i used 1 part filling to 2 parts skin.. GRAVE MISTAKE! skin was super thick :\ so i did 1 to 1.. much better! then another friend told me skin should be slightly lesser than filing.. which i think is true also lah.. cos even 1 to 1, the skin still a bit on the thick side as compared to the ones sold commercially.. nonetheless, most importantly, the taste (i like) is there!!!!!!!!!!!! yumz! i'm lovin' it! my toughest critic also gave the thumbs up!
in case you're wondering what has the first 4 pic gotta do with the mooncake... i extracted pandan juice from pandan leaves by pounding them and squeezing (the hell!) out of them.. why did i do it? 'cause i forget to buy pandan essence and i was lazy to go get it.. so since my dad has 3 huge pandan plants and mum used to pound the pandan leaves to get the extract, i decided to try it for myself.. a lesson learnt - get the ready-made extract/essence.. (-_-) after pounding and squeezing like almost 20 leaves, i got like prob 1 tsp of juice? and my palms hurt from all the squeezing.. so the pandan flavour wasn't v strong..
anyway, will prob try a lychee or mango flavour next week :) wish me luck!
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