冰淇淋冰皮月饼 | Snowy Skin Ice Cream Moon cake

The Moon Festival, also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or Mid-Autumn Day falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month (This year will be on 13 Sept 2019) when the moon is believed to be the fullest and roundest. Members of the family gather together for a reunion dinner on this day while eating moon-cakes of various flavors.

There was also a story behind this moon cake festival (copy from google):

The Moon Festival legend about Hou Yi and Chang E is always told to children at this time. Once upon a time, there were ten suns in the sky, scorching many crops and people to death. The Emperor of Heaven summoned Hou Yi to shoot down nine of the suns. Hou Yi succeeded, the weather soon recovered and life was saved. Hou Yi was rewarded with the elixir of immortality. While Hou Yi was still on the Earth, he met Chang E, they fell in love and were married.

Hou Yi wanted to spend his life with Chang E forever, so he went to the Western Queen Mother to ask for the elixir of life. For the good deeds that Hou Yi had performed for the Earth, the Western Queen Mother agreed to give him the elixir, sufficient for two people, half each. Hou Yi returned home and told his wife. They decided to drink it together on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month when the moon was round and bright. But a wicked man named Feng Meng overheard them and wanted the elixir for himself.

On the 15th day, before Hou Yi returned home from hunting, Feng Meng went to Hou Yi's home and forced Chang E to give him the elixir. She knew that she could not defeat Feng Meng so, with no other choice, she drank the elixir all by herself. When Hou Yi came back, he found that his wife had been lifted to Heaven. Chang E decided to live on the Moon because it's closest to the Earth. Hou Yi looked up at the moon and put the foods Chang E used to love in the garden as a sacrifice. Thus, people started admiring the moon on this day. Later, Chang E and Hou Yi came to represent the yin and yang respectively (the moon and the sun).

Example of different traditional moon cake flavour includes: lotus, red bean and custard. This year, I created my own moon cake recipe - by using ice cream. Who doesn't like ice cream? I believe everyone does.

To make this snowy skin ice cream moon cake, we need：
制作冰皮冰淇淋月饼，我们需要：

We are going to make the ice cream ourselves. Easy ice cream recipe with only three ingredients. Easy and smooth ice cream without any ice crystals.

Ice cream 冰淇淋：
340g thickened cream 鲜奶油
150-180g condensed milk 炼奶
2tbsp matcha/cocoa powder 2大匙抹茶，可可粉

Snowy Skin 冰皮
50g glutinous flour 糯米粉
40g rice flour 沾米粉
30g wheat starch 澄粉
220ml milk 220毫升牛奶
50g sugar 砂糖
30g oil 油

Note:
If you leave the moon cake in the freezer overnight, you have to defrost a little bit before you can eat it. The time needed to defrost depend on the room temperature. When you feel the moon cake skin is little bit soft, that is the time you can enjoy it. （Don't worry, at this time, the ice cream won't melt yet). My home temperature is around 15-20 degree Celsius and it took me around 10-15.

如果你的冰皮月饼已经在冷冻室一个晚上了，你在吃之前，必须先解冻。解冻的时间不一定。得看室温。像我家现在因为冬天的关系，每天室温大概15-20摄氏，我大约花了10-15分钟来解冻。如何知道已经解冻好了？只要你用手轻轻触碰，冰皮有点软了，就可以了。放心，此时的冰淇淋还没有融化。


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