Mochi Cakes 冰皮月饼

You can call them Chinese snow-skin mooncakes. It's not cheap to buy a mooncake mold and it's hard to find in local Asian store sometimes. I found this plastic soap mold in craft store and cost only $3.00, there are 5 small molds in one. They turn out cute and perfect size for healthy eating. You can add food colors to the wrapper mix to make colorful mochi cakes. You also can make you own favorite fillings. Many of these ingredients can be found in your local Asian stores.

Ingredients for Wrapper:

· 1/3 cup Glutinous Rice powder (also called Mochiko)

· 1/3 cup Rice powder

· 1/8 cup Wheat Starch

· 1/4 cup sugar

· 3/4 cup milk

· 1 Tbsp. cooking oil

Mix all ingredients in a metal mixing bowl until well blend. Set aside for 20 minutes.

Boil water in a saucepan, steam the wrapper mix in mixing bowl. Stir occasionally until thicken to a dough. Cool. Divide the dough to 7-8 pieces and roll to round balls.

Tips:

You can also place the mixture in a medium ceramic bowl (easy to clean, can be used other microwaveable container), microwave with cover for 2 minutes, stir, then microwave another 1-2 minute (depending on the size of the bowl and microwave). Stir to a dough.
It's easier to wrap the filling together when the dough is warm than cold.

Ingredients for filling:

· 1/2 cup peanut powder (or grind 1/2 cup of peanut with a coffee grinder)

· 1 package of instant black sesame paste (about 50 g, or grind 1/4 cup black sesame)

· 1/8 cup sugar

· 2 Tbsp. butter, melted

Mix all ingredients for filling together is a small mixing bowl. Make 7 balls and set aside.

1. Dust some tapioca starch (or potato starch) on the cooking board. Flatten the wrapper; place a ball of filling in the center. Close the wrapper and roll to a smooth ball.

2. Uses a plastic soap mold, dust tapioca starch inside the mold, shake out the extra starch. Press the mochi cake ball into the mold firmly, and then dab off the mold.

3. Keep mochi cakes in a tight covered container. Chill about 1 hour and serve cold.