Snow skin mooncakes (Bing Pei Jyut Beng) are a soft and chewy mochi-like treat stuffed with a variety of dense, sweet fillings. Sharing mooncakes is an important part of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, sometimes called the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival. Although the cakes traditionally use a wheat flour pastry, cakes with a rice flour dough that's steamed, not baked, began appearing in Hong Kong in the 1960s and are now popular in China and elsewhere. If you'd like to make mooncakes at home this is an especially easy version to try. Although these treats can feature a variety of fillings, we streamlined the recipe by using store-bought sweet red bean paste, one of the most popular mooncake fillings, so you can focus on making the snow-like skin. A microwave quickly cooks the combination of sweet rice flour, regular rice flour and wheat starch that forms the soft, easy-to-work dough. The intricate designs stamped on top of mooncakes are easy to achieve with an inexpensive plastic press mold. You can have a batch of beautiful homemade mooncakes ready in about an hour.
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Food Network Kitchen | 2023-06-01
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