Milk Custard Snow Skin Moon Cakes

Snow Skin Moon Cakes with Milk Custard Fillings.

Utensils needed for making Snow Skin Moon Cakes- pastry brush, small rolling pin, moon cake mold and plastic knife.

Divide and weigh the skin dough and filling dough into individual balls.

The inside of a Milk Custard Snow Skin Moon Cake.

Erik and Jonathan love milk custard (lai wong) and whenever we go out for dim sum, the meal will never be complete without 'lai wong bau'! I searched high and low for a 'lai wong' recipe to improvise this Milk Custard Snow Skin Moon Cake. Give it a try if you are also a 'lai wong' lover and without a doubt, I love it too!

Milk Custard Snow Skin Moon Cakes

Recipe for the Milk Custard (lai wong) Filling

Ingredients:-

60 g Bird’s Eye Custard Powder

40 g Carnation Skim Milk Powder

45 g granulated sugar

70 g full cream Carnation Evaporated Milk

110 g Aroy-D coconut milk

25 g melted unsalted butter

1 medium egg

1 teaspoon canola oil for greasing the steaming plate

Method:-

1. Place custard power, milk powder and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Whisk to combine.

2. Add evaporated milk and coconut milk to dry mixture. Whisk to form a smooth batter without lumps.

3. Lightly whisk egg in a separate bowl. Then add to batter.

4. Lastly add melted butter (must be added last).

5. Lightly grease  a 2” deep by 8” wide heat proof plate with canola oil, strain batter into plate to remove any remaining lumps and place in a steamer. Steam on high for 8 – 10 minutes until toothpick inserted into custard comes out clean.

6. Remove from steamer and let cool until it is warm to touch. 

7. Put on a pair of food safe gloves, scrape custard from plate and knead until it forms a smooth and shiny dough. Form into a log shape and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill in fridge until ready to use when skin dough is ready.

8. When skin dough is ready, remove chilled filling dough from fridge, weigh and divide into portions of 30 g each. Roll each portion into a ball. Now you are ready to wrap the filling with the skin dough.

*Please refer to the Hello Kitty Snow Skin Moon Cakes in this blog for the dough recipe and how to form the moon cakes.

*This filling freezes well for at least 2 weeks! So make ahead and enjoy your moon sighting over a cuppa tea!*

*Milk custard recipe is adapted from SiuKitchen.