Chickpeas cookies (马豆酥)

Updated post on 9-1-2017

Since I have a kuih bangkit mould, I am thinking of using it for the moulding. It works well and  I have append recipe 2 in red. Instead of free shaping, you can just mix the

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Poon Choi aka Peng Cai or Basin Dish (盆菜)

INTRODUCTION

Pen Cai (Mandarin 盆菜) or Poon Choi (Cantonese) is a traditional dish for the Hakka and the Cantonese. I am not going to write more about this auspicious dish as Wikipedia has a very detail and extensive write up

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Red Bean Niangao (红豆年糕)

INTRODUCTION

Niangao or glutinous rice cake is a very important Chinese New Year Cake that most families will prepare and purchased during Chinese New Year.  It signifies progression over the years or 年年高升.

In essence, niangao is made from glutinous

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Coffee Cookies (咖啡曲奇)

After I did my cookies compilation 2 days ago (SPECIAL COMPILATION OF 80 CHINESE NEW YEAR RECIPES–PART 1–Cookies, Snacks and Cakes ( 80 春节食谱汇编 1–糕点和曲奇)) , do I still have any Chinese New Year Goodies to share? Yes,

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SPECIAL COMPILATION OF 90 CHINESE NEW YEAR RECIPES–PART 1–Cookies, Snacks and Cakes ( 90 春节食谱汇编 1–糕点和曲奇)

INTRODUCTION

This is a special compilation for all the Chinese New Year related recipes. It will be divided into 3 posts.

  • Part 1 is concerning all the cookies, pastries pertaining to the Chinese New Year recipes.
  • Part 2 is this
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Kampar Chicken Biscuit (Kai Zai Paeng or 鸡仔饼)

INTRODUCTION

i have always heard of this biscuit but I never try it before I blog this cookies. This Chinese New Year, it seems that it is a common Chinese New Year goodies in Chinese Facebook Groups. I also saw

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Special Compilation On Egg White Recipes (蛋清食谱特别汇总)

INTRODUCTION

As explained in my Braising egg white post earlier last week, egg whites can be a tedious problem for home baker especially during Chinese New Year. The egg white accumulated purely from egg washing can easily accumulate to 1

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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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