Auspicious Koi Agar Agar (吉祥鲤鱼燕菜)

INTRODUCTION

Koi or carp is an auspicious animal in Chinese traditional beliefs.  It is common appeared in Chinese New Year goodies as it denotes progression in career 。 There is a Chinese (鲤鱼跃龙门) sayings that when carps in

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Monkey Fortune Biscuits (猴王贺饼)

INTRODUCTION

Once upon a time, a group of teenage monkeys were playing in a forest.. Their faces was full of pimples and dirtied with mud.. They were called to celebrate the coming monkey year 2016. Lol..

I did not do

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Prune Lapis (黑枣千层蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

All the base recipe for different type of commercially sold lapis is basically the same. Minor changes are made to have different flavouring and most will use a base recipe of at least 30 egg yolks. The same is

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Lemon/Orange Meringue Kisses or Ice Cream Cookies (香橙蛋白霜饼/冰淇淋饼)

INTRODUCTION

I prepared some cashew nut cookies yesterday, the recipe used 2 egg yolks, therefore I have 2 egg whites left. You can refer to this post for the recipe: Cashew Nut Cookies (腰豆酥饼)

Since this quantity is small, immediately

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Cashew Nut Cookies (腰豆酥饼)

 

INTRODUCTION

In Singapore and Malaysia, the number of cookies recipes for Chinese New Year is amazing. It seems that I can never able to blog all the recipes.

When I visited supermarket during this period, one of the things

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Chinese Almond Biscuits or White Almond Cookies (杏仁酥饼/白色杏仁饼)

updated post on 28-12-2016

I just recently realized that this recipe is exactly the same as the “White Almond Cookies 白色杏仁饼“ which is very common in Chinese Facebook Group. Therefore, I have decided to shape the biscuits into normal Chinese

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Traditional Flower Moulded Chinese New Year Snack–Honeycomb cookies, Kuih Loyang aka Kuih Ros (蜂巢饼或糖环)

INTRODUCTION

All these while, I always thought that this snack belong to our Malay or Peranakan brothers or even Dayak brothers in Sarawak.. I seldom saw Chinese elders prepare this and initially, I wanted to Group them into Peranakan or

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Mixed Fruit Log Cake (杂果树桐蛋糕) 32
Mixed Fruit Log Cake (杂果树桐蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

Christmas is one week away and I still have some soaked mixed fruit in the fridge. By hook and by crook, i wanted to get rid these soaked fruits.

Facebook in the last few weeks has been flooded with

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Oreo Milky Biscuits (Oreo 奶香饼干) 26
Oreo Milky Biscuits (Oreo 奶香饼干)

INTRODUCTION

It is my style to share festival recipes ahead of time and Chinese New Year is less than 2 months from now.. I believed that I should blogged earlier such that readers can have more choices in recipe selection.

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Cranberry Biscuits (蔓梅饼干)

Updated on 27-9-2016

Upload of new pictures using cranberry .

INTRODUCTION

First of all, I want to apologize to title the post as “cranberry biscuits” yet in this illustration, there is no cranberry being used.

Well, the original recipe is

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