Recipes & Cooking : Cookies

Pecan Sandies

Pecan Sandies

My holiday baking continues today with pecan sandies, one of the classic cookies for the holidays. Everyone loves buttery and crumbly cookies and these pecan sandies are made with finely chopped pecans, butter, and all-purpose flour and dusted with powdered sugar for extra sweetness. I have never made pecan sandies before so I referred to a cookie magazine I got…

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Thumbprint Cookies

Thumbprint Cookies

December is a happy month. It is a month about baking really outstanding cookies for the upcoming holiday season; it is also a month filled with holiday parties, great friends, and family. So this month, I am sharing a few of my favorite cookies recipes as well as party foods with you. When I decided to make thumbprint cookies, I…

Matcha Almond Cookies

Matcha Almond Cookies

When I posted the Matcha Roll recipe, I received a few requests from readers asking me to share more green tea (matcha) recipes. Matcha as an ingredient in baking has become increasingly popular, especially for people who are partial to Japanese cuisine. I personally love matcha: its powdery texture, earthy fragrance and aroma, and the subtle nuance it lends to…

Melting Moments Cookies

Melting Moments Cookies

Looking through my baking recipes, I realize that the Spritz cookies that I baked for Christmas was quite the hit. Just before going home for the holidays, I was thinking all sorts of festive cookies I used to have in Malaysia, particularly melt in your mouth cookies, eg. Butter cookies, Sugee cookies and Cornstarch cookies. So, I decided to whip…

Spritz Cookies

Spritz Cookies

I’ve been baking quite a bit lately, thanks to my new KitchenAid 7-Quart Stand Mixer (enter to win here) that my friend at KithenAid sent me. This past weekend, I baked a batch of spritz cookies using my favorite cookie recipe, and they were gone in no time. (Spritz cookies are basically butter cookies made with a cookie press.) These…

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Remember I have a talented contributor who is a baking goddess?  She is back with another popular cookie recipe (previously, she shared the recipe of cornflakes cookies)—the all-time favorite chocolate chip cookies. I have to admit that I am not the biggest fan of chocolate (I know!) but I love chocolate chip cookie because it has the the benefit of…

Cornflake Cookies

Cornflake Cookies

After a few savory dishes, I thought it’s time I share a Chinese New Year baking recipe with you. Chinese New Year calls for major baking and kuih (local sweet cakes) making sessions in Malaysia. The popular items are pineapple tarts or pineapple rolls, kuih kapit (check out the step-by-step in pictures!), kuih bangkit, kuih bahulu, peanut cookies, kuih loyang/kuih…

Butter Cookies Recipe

Butter Cookies Recipe

How time flies. It was just like yesterday when the world was gearing up for Y2K bug and the potential millennium meltdown; fast forward 10 years, we are counting down to 2010, and 45 days left on 2009. It’s almost that time of year again. I might be slightly early this year in terms of baking, but I have good…