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Peanut Cookies
Peanut cookies and peanut cookies recipe. These peanut cookies are a must for Lunar New Year. Easy peanut cookies recipe made with 4 ingredients.
Ingredients:
4 cups ground roasted peanuts
1 cup powdered sugar (icing sugar)
1 cup peanut oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons shortening
1 egg yolk, beaten slightly for egg wash
Method:
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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Ding
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.
Nadiah Loi via Facebook
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!
The Global Nomadess
Yum! I grew up in Singapore and I would love snacking on Suji Cookies during Chinese New Year and Eid holidays!
Fern @ To Food with Love
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?
siewloon
No need to melt it
Seven Second Rhapsody via Facebook
I’m lovin’ the new year and looking forward to chinese new year! Happy holidays!
Apple Foodees
Happy New Year to you.
Your peanut cookies looks great.
You can also use chopsticks to form the circles on top of the cookies.
Lisa Waldschmidt
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.
Sylvia
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!!
Taggie
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.
Rasa Malaysia
Oops, thanks for pointing it out. Peanut cookies recipe updated.
Grace
Love the peanut cookies recipe. My cousin makes them too & she marks the top of the cookies with a dot using red food coloring! Thank you for sharing.
Wee Ming Bong via Facebook
Thanks for sharing…looks great…making it this weekend.
Debra H
Looks good! About how many cookies doses this recipe make?
siewloon
About 200 pieces
siewloon
About 200 pieces.
Steve
They look great and I will look out for them this CNY on Penang – many thanks!!
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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 ~
Shirley
Hi
Wht is shortening?Is there an alternative to shortening?
Thanks
siewloon
You can omit shortening and replace it with butter or oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortening
Vit
How much of butter please? any brand you recommend?
Rabbitcancook
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…
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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.
Betty
How many cookies does this make?
Sylvia
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!!
Rasa Malaysia
Any cup you use is fine, as long as you use the same cup. Sorry but don’t have weight.
Swallow
Please confirm that the 4 cup ground roasted peanuts and 2 cups of the all purpose flour are correct ingredients. I tried and it doesn’t come out like dough-texture. It is very wet dough and I can’t even brush the yolk on top. I add more all purpose flour. Could you please post a video tutorial on this recipe? Thanks.
Ryan
These little peanut cookies look great!!
Aileen Smith
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.
Rasa Malaysia
Yes, they should be crumbly and melt in your mouth. If you want them to be less crumbly, don’t use the shortening.
Jobless Girl
Yummy love this
linda marq
can’t figure out how to print recipes
Rasa Malaysia
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Florence
Would it be okay if I replaced the shortening with the same amount of peanut oil instead?
dvagfuzzy
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!
Karin
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?
Wenn
HI:
I made your delicious peanut cookies ( fah sang peng) Thank you so much for the great recipe.
How long can these cookies be stored in an airtight glass jar at room temperature?
Will they last at least a week? If not…should i refrigerate or freeze them?
I made them a week early for a party but now am not so sure if they will stay fresh !
Thanks so much
Wenn
Rasa Malaysia
Yes one week should be ok.
Careen
Can I substitute peanut oil with butter? If can, how much butter ? Thanks.. Ur photo looks really yummy…
lizzie
Hi i used butter, no shortening and last for a month, in airtight biscuit tin.
carmen
is it ground roasted peanuts with skin on or skin off?
Rasa Malaysia
Skin off.
carmen
thank you. looking forward to making them today!
Aileen
Hi,
May I know why my peanut cookies came out “cracked” … All cracked!
I followed exactly the recipe and I double checked everything, do you know what’s the reason? Thanks
SLB
Mine didn’t even hold together as a cookie. They just kind of fall apart into a crumbly mess. Will be tossing them out.