Peanut Cookies Recipe
Peanut cookie is one of my favorite Chinese New Year cookies.
I grew up helping my late aunt making hundreds of peanut cookies…shaping them into round balls.
Next, I used the cap of a toothpaste to form the circle pattern on top of each cookie.
The last step was brushing the top of the cookies with egg wash, using a Chinese calligraphy brush.
Peanut cookies are crumbly and absolutely addictive. Once I start eating, I just can’t stop.
Ingredients for Peanut Cookies
Peanut cookie is a traditional Chinese New Year cookie in Malaysia. This peanut cookie recipe was contributed by Ho Siew Loon.
The recipe calls for only six (6) main ingredients:
- Ground roasted peanut
- All purpose flour
- Peanut oil
- Powdered Sugar
- Shortening
- Egg yolk or egg wash
How to Make Peanut Cookies?
Combine the ground peanuts with flour, sugar and peanut oil to make the dough.
Form the dough into small balls and decorate the top and brush with egg wash.
Are Peanut Cookies Healthy?
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.
How Many Calories Per Serving?
This recipe is only 308 calories per serving.
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The best homemade Peanut Cookies for Lunar New Year. This easy peanut cookies recipe calls for six (6) ingredients, so crumbly and yummy!Peanut Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information
Yield
4
Serving Size
4 people
Amount Per Serving
Calories 308Total Fat 85gSaturated Fat 14gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 49mgSodium 636mgCarbohydrates 103gFiber 15gSugar 30gProtein 48g
Katherine
Hi, can I use corn oil instead of. Peanut oil ? Thanks.
Rasa Malaysia
Yes you can.
2sistersrecipes
Love this idea!! So easy too! Happy Néw Year Rasa!
Yen
Can I use cooking oil instead of peanut oil? I don’t have peanut oil..
Rasa Malaysia
You can but not as aromatic.
Nee
Can I replace the shortening with butter?
Rasa Malaysia
Yes.
Roopi
What brand of product do you use for shortening?
Rasa Malaysia
Crisco.
Wai Luin Ho
i tried the peanut cookies. Tastes amazing. My first attempt
guy
hi – yes, very crumbly, but they do hold together if you let them cool, only a couple cracked – no problem. shortening I understand as butter – I think you mean either baking powder or bicarbonate. I used baking powder and it worked fine. good recipe.
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.