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:
Easy mini peanut cookies recipe. These peanut cookies are a must for Lunar New Year. Easy peanut cookies recipe made with 4 ingredients!
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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This recipe is only 308 calories per serving.
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Peanut Cookies Recipe
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
Directions
- 1
Mix the ground peanut, sugar, oil, shortening and flour together until well combined. Shaped into small balls. Use a fork or the palm of your hand to flatten it slightly. Brush the top with the egg wash and bake at 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) for 20 minutes or until brown. Remove from the oven and let cool.
Recipe Notes
You can add a circle pattern to the top of the peanut cookies by pressing and flattening the peanut cookies with the cap of your toothpaste.ing the peanut cookies with the cap of your toothpaste.
Iris
Is powdered sugar the same thing as icing sugar? The reason I ask is I used castor sugar and blitzed it down with a magic bullet to “powdered sugar”. When I added 1 cup of peanut oil the mix was too wet. Icing sugar generally has corn flour in it so it needs to be specified.
Rasa Malaysia
Yes it’s the same.
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.
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
Zen of greedygirlgourmet
Hi Aileen this type of cookie tends to have cracks :) hope this helps! :)
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!
lizzie
Hi i used butter, no shortening and last for a month, in airtight biscuit tin.