Recipe: Little Pig Mooncakes | OpenRice Singapore

Last week, we showed you how to make your own mini snowskin mooncakes. And with the leftover dough and lotus paste we had, we had some fun making mooncakes that look like adorable little pigs. Used up all your dough from the previous round? Start from scratch and here’s how! Ingredients: 150g glutinous rice flour (aka gaofen/ 糕粉) 150g icing sugar 50g shortening 180g cold water Food colouring (pink or any other colour you prefer) Mooncake filling (lotus paste) Chocolate chips

Method: 1. Sift glutinous rice flour and icing sugar into a bowl. 2. Combine shortening into the mixture. 3. Add a drop of food colouring into the cold water and slowly add it into the dry ingredients. You might not need all the water, stop once the mixture reaches a doughy consistency. 4. Divide dough into 30g and fillings into 25g portions respectively. 5. Dust work space and hands with glutinous rice floor every time you start with a portion of dough. Flatten the dough into a small disc and wrap it around a ball of lotus paste. 6. Mould a small piece of dough into oval shape and use a chopstick to poke 2 holes for its nose.

7. Continue to mould two round pieces for its ears. 8. Roll out a piece of dough into a tiny strip, curl it up for its tail.

9. Lastly, use chocolate chips for its eyes. 10. Repeat until all the dough is used up. There you have it, adorable pig mooncakes! This is a fun weekend activity that parents can do with their kids. We think the green ones resemble Bag Piggies from Angry Birds, don't you?

Psst, one of us got a little creative and made Gudetama mooncakes. Related: Gudetama Food Craze in Hong Kong See also: Pretty cakes in Singapore Popular desserts in Singapore

Written by Fiona Phoon. Recipe adapted from bentomonsters.com