Snow skin mooncake is a kind of contemporary style mooncake eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Snow skin mooncakes are a non-baked mooncake which originated in Hong Kong. Since many customers thought traditional mooncakes were an oily food, bakers used fruit for filling and less oil to make the crust of mooncakes.

The snow skin mooncake is similar to mochi ice cream or yukimi daifuku, as both have glutinous rice crusts and have to be kept frozen. However, snow skin mooncakes were difficult to find in Mainland China before the 2000s, because of the need to keep them refrigerated while in transit from the producer to the consumer. Today, the snow skin mooncake has become quite popular around China so here we’ll tell you how to make it by yourselves.

Difficulties: ★★★