CNY cookies.

Gong Xi Fatt Chai. Time flies and can't believe that I am spending my last Chinese New Year in Ukraine and since it is my last new year so we've baked some cookies.

It was really a tiring process, days after day baking and washing, finally it's all done. yipee...
Among the cookies that I baked are: Cornflakes cookies, Pineapple roll and tarts, Peanut cookies and Modified Kuih Bangkit. It really helped me spice up the CNY mood for a bit, really sucks when you are in overseas and can't be with your family members. :(

Anyway, here are the pictures: A picture worth a thousand words.

Cornflakes Cookies:

We are baking cornflakes cookies. Joyce came and join in the fun. Hehe she look so blur in this picture, so cute.

Tadaa, all done. Cornflakes cookies. yumm..

 

Then of course you need to clean up your  house room.

Recipe:

( I forgot where I got the recipe from)

110g butter

1/2tsp grated rind of orange zest

110g castor sugar

1/2tsp vanilla essence

1 egg yolk

100 g cornflakes, crushed lightly

Sift lightly:

125g self raising flour

1 tbsp corn flour

Mehtod:

1) Cream butter, sugar, vanilla essence until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and orange zest.

2) Fold in sifted flour and mix

3) Put mixture into the fridge to chill for 30 minutes or until slight firm.

4) Add in Crushed cornflakes ( I add in raisins too). You can add more than 100g, if you are a fan of cornflakes.

5) Shape the dough into balls and placed on lightly greased baking tray.

6) Bake in preheat oven at 170 degree Celsius for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

7) Cool completely before storage.

The result nice or not. It was delicious

Pineapple Tarts/ roll

Rolling the dough.

It was a very difficult process and it took us the whole day to bake it. Thoughwonder one small jar of tart cost RM 15 in Malaysia.

 The tarts and the roll. Too bad I don't have the mold for pineapple roll, so this is how I do it. Cut it to small small rectangular strands and place the jam on one end and roll it.

 

The day before, we prepared the pineapple jam. There isn't any fresh pineapple here fresh pineapple are very expensive, so we used canned pineapple as a substitute.

  

The product. Very happy and unbelievable that I managed to bake such nice cookies. *thick face, self-praise*

Drooling?? Get the recipe here.

Peanut Cookies

 

This is a typical Chinese new year cookies and it's very tasty. But beware not to over-eat or you will be ending up having good friends with pimples and sore-throat.

Recipe:

1kg of roasted skinless peanuts

1kg of icing sugar

1kg of All purpose flour

Oil

Egg yolk for coating ( 1 egg yolk + 1 tbsp water)

p/s: ratio 1:1:1

Methods:

1) Blend the peanuts until it looks like "sand" and pour it into the mixing bowl.

2) If you don't have icing sugar, use normal sugar but blend it first. Again, mix it with the peanuts.

3) Sift in all purpose flour.

4) Mix well, add oil while mixing. Mix oil until  a dough can be formed.( For 1kg peanuts, I used around 0.5ml of sunflower oil) Do not over-add the oil or else the whole thing will turn to be too oily as peanuts do secrete oil too.

5) Shape the dough into small balls and place it on a greased baking tray.

6) Pressed a halved peanut on top of the ball and glazed it with egg yolk.

7) Baked in the preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius for 15 min or until  brown.

8) Cool completely before storage.

 

Yum yum yum..

The modified Kuih Bangkit

It was one of my favorite CNY cookies and I haven't tried it for 6 years. Can you imagine? 6 years without Kuih Bangkit. So I researched the recipe for Kuih Bangkit and found out that I need Tapioca flour. Where to get Tapioca flour here lar so while I am browsing through Kuih Bangkit recipe, I found this and I think it is the closest I could get ... Aih nevermind, the taste and texture is 80 % more a less the same. I am satisfied. End of story.

 

It was satisfaction...yummm..

I was lazy and I did not make dragon shape so all I did was round shape modified Kuih Bangkit

 

Then we fried these too... 

All heaty stuff, hope after CNY, I don't burn myself with acne and sore throat.

All prepared.. The keropok so little already because I managed to finish it up even before CNY.

Last but not least....

GONG XI FATT CHAI.

虎啸一声山海动，

龙腾三界吉祥来。

恭喜发财

万事如意

Have a prosperous Chinese new year ahead!!