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January 3rd, 2012Recipes, Baking Recipes, Recipes, Chinese New Year, Recipes, Chinese Recipes, Recipes33 Comments
Peanut cookies are one of my favorite Chinese New Year cookies. I grew up helping my aunt making hundreds of them. Shaping them into round balls, slightly flattened them with the cap of toothpaste to form the circle pattern on top of the cookies before brushing the top with an egg wash. Peanut cookies are crumbly and absolutely addictive. Once I start eating, I just can’t stop. Check out this peanut cookies recipe by my contributor Siew Loon. Don’t forget to scroll down and check out other festive baking recipes for Lunar New Year.
Happy 2012 to all the readers! Time flies and with just a wink of an eye, 2011 has ended. Lunar New Year is just 3 weeks away and I am sure all of us are looking forward to eat lots of good food, gatherings with the loved ones and “ang pow” (red packets). I have managed to squeeze in some time during the long holidays to bake some of my favorite cookies, including peanut cookies. It is kind of addictive and once you pop one into your mouth you will definitely come back for more.
Peanut cookie is a traditional Chinese New Year cookies. I remember my mom making them every year during for Lunar New Year. It is mainly made of peanuts and blended with oil and flour. Peanut cookies are obviously not a very healthy snack but they are too good. As it is for the Lunar New Year celebration, just indulge and enjoy them with a cup of Chinese tea.
More Lunar New Year Baking Recipes:
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| Pineapple Tarts | Pineapple Cookies |
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| Cornflake Cookies | Kuih Bahulu |
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| Kuih Bangkit | Pineapple Rolls (Nastar) |
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OMG peanut cookies toh tao kuih, I haven’t had these for ages since I left Malaysia. I miss these, thanks for sharing…happy new year. Keep the recipes coming.
My late Grandmother used to make these every CNY n when I was in secondary school, my elder sister n I were always roped in to help not only in making peanut cookies but kuih bahulu n kuih kapit n many others too……..the traditional way using charcoal……we were like a factory line each wt her duties fr pouring the batter over the kuih kapit moulds, then peeling off the cooked kuih kapit n another folding them immediately in fan shapes n then when cooled, kept in recycled biscuits or Milo tins!! Those days all these traditional cookies n sweets were so tasty n had a longer shelf life compared to the ones sold commercially now…….how I missed my Grandmother n her kuih!
Yum! I grew up in Singapore and I would love snacking on Suji Cookies during Chinese New Year and Eid holidays!
Oh yum…I’ve never made these before…they sound pretty easy (I think!). I was wondering, for the shortening, do you have to melt it first?
No need to melt it
I’m lovin’ the new year and looking forward to chinese new year! Happy holidays!
Happy New Year to you.
Your peanut cookies looks great.
You can also use chopsticks to form the circles on top of the cookies.
Do you know how many cups of peanuts you need to make 4 cups ground? or is it 4 cups then ground? Looking forward to making these.
Your recipe calls for cups and tablespoon. I’m wondering if you can let me know portions in gms or ozs – for 1 cup and also 1 Tablespoon as cup and spoon differs country to country….!! Thanks lot. Once I have this information, I look forward to trying these yummy looking biscuits!!
This looks good and sounds pretty easy, but where does the powdered sugar come in? I don’t see it listed in the “Method” section. Thanks.
Oops, thanks for pointing it out. Peanut cookies recipe updated.
Thanks for sharing…looks great…making it this weekend.
Looks good! About how many cookies doses this recipe make?
About 200 pieces
About 200 pieces.
They look great and I will look out for them this CNY on Penang – many thanks!!
Hahaha this recipe definitely reminds me that Chinese New Year’s just around the corner! GOSH i’m freaking out :P i dun particularly like it hehe having to se all the relatives ~
Hi
Wht is shortening?Is there an alternative to shortening?
Thanks
You can omit shortening and replace it with butter or oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortening
Hi, these all looks very familiar, i am indonesian born chinese and i remember fondly growing up seeing (not helping ) mum preparing and baking pineapple tart, kuih bangkit and many others just bfore CNY and when it comes to new year day and visiting, we will compare whose cookies or what cookies taste the best …LOL…
So excited it is going to be the year of the Dragon – having a little girl in 5 weeks and i am also a Drago – should be a fun year.
How many cookies does this make?
Ingredients in your recipe calls for cups and tablespoon. I’m wondering if you can let me know portions in gms or ozs – for 1 cup and also 1 Tablespoon as a cup and a tablespoon differs from country to country….!! Thanks a lot. Once I have this information, I look forward to trying these yummy looking biscuits!!
Any cup you use is fine, as long as you use the same cup. Sorry but don’t have weight.
These little peanut cookies look great!!
The Peanut cookies came out very crumbly. Are they they supposed to be that way.? I put them back to bake another 10 mins. more. They are still very crumbly. Thanks for the recipe.. Perhaps less peanut oil is the answer.
Yes, they should be crumbly and melt in your mouth. If you want them to be less crumbly, don’t use the shortening.
Yummy love this
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Would it be okay if I replaced the shortening with the same amount of peanut oil instead?
Made these peanut cookies without the shortening and they weren’t as crumbly as my friend who made them with the shortening. Very tasty. A 500gram bag of roasted peanuts grounded in your food processor equals 4 cups of ground peanuts. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, I love looking at your recipes. I love peanut cookies, especially those that are crumbly and melt in your mouth. I would like to try and make this peanut cookies but is it possible to have the measurements in grams and not in cups?