Bunny Biscuits Again...

Second batch of Suji Bunny Biscuits - this time with a different recipe (and I found out its spelled 'Suji')

This recipe is slightly crunchier, less melt in your mouth - and has the cracked effect (spoiling my bunny faces in the process). However, I still think it is incredibly yummy :)

Lots of people were freaked out by my blue/green bunnies earlier; so I made normal coloured fellas this time. White bunnies with red eyes and rounded ears :D I think 'kuaci' seeds, or pumpkin seeds look nicer as ears compared to almond nibs...

Unbaked bunnies...

 The recipe is of course, really simple... and the dough is easier to shape as it's harder.

250gm Ghee, 1 tsp Vanilla Essence, 500g Self raising flour,  150gm Icing Sugar,  A pinch of salt ,  red colouring,  Pumpkin seeds

Mix flour, icing sugar and salt together, then slowly rub in the ghee and the vanilla essence. Mix till well combined, then knead with hands till a ball of dough is formed. Take a teaspoon full of dough and shape it into a little ball. Prick two small 'eyes' with colouring and stick on two pumpkin seeds for ears. Bake at 190 degrees for about 10-12 mins. 

Looks like a rabbit play pen

The year of the rabbit is generally supposed to be a good year for all. Its a peaceful, calm and a happy year. So, I wish you a great year ahead - with prosperity, happiness and an abundance of cookies :D

Dragon Balls

Digging in...

Had some left over lotus paste from last year's Mooncake Festival. Yes I know, it was over 3 months ago - but lotus paste can keep for rather long :P

So I used them to make little Dragon Balls - with spiral, flaky crust :) I'm very pleased at how my crust turned out! :) :) :)

With lots of pumpkin seeds, lotus paste and my favourite... salted egg yolk! Yum yum!

Pumpkin seeds on top - marks the ones with egg yolks inside :P

I love the spirals on the skin!

Have a prosperous new year everyone! :D

Lu Kam?

Lu Kam, or Mandarin Oranges are one of those other 'must haves' during Chinese New Year.

So, heres another innovation of mine... the Chinese New Year Orange Cookie :D

It tastes like oranges too - I added in some orange juice, and plenty of orange rind. 

Does it look anything like Lu Kams?

It isn't too difficult to make, and the ingredients are rather simple. The dough is also easy to work with.

What you need is:

2 1/2 cups of All Purpose Flour

Zest of 2 oranges

3/4 cups of sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup of butter

2 tsp orange juice

2 Tbs cream cheese

orange coloring

1. Mix the flour, orange zest salt and sugar together.
2. Slowly rub in the butter till well blended
3. Drop in cream cheese and orange coloring and juice. Mix slowly. After dough looks wet enough, take it out of the mixer and knead.
4. Roll little balls about the size of one teaspoon. I use a melon baller to get roughly the same size. Finally, use a stick and poke a shallow green dot on the top of the orange ball.
5. Bake at 190 degrees, for about 12 mins. 

Enjoy your new year cookies!

Sughee Rabbit Cookies

I love my pink rabbits.. :D

A couple more weeks, starts the year of the rabbit! (which also marks the end of MY year, the year of the Tiger)

Chinese New Year always means a whole lot of Cookies!!!! But year after year I get sick of these cookies mainly because in almost every home I visit - I see the same cookies everywhere. Pineapple tarts, kuih bangkit, peanut cookies, love letters.... What to do? It's tradition....

Now I love all these cookies, but it gets boring seeing them every year. So I decided to make something different this time around....

Unveiling my Sughee Rabbit Cookies!!

Purple, pink and blue rabbits!

My Sughee Rabbits are actually Sughee Cookies... One of my absolute favorite Chinese New Year treats. Made from Ghee (goat's milk butter?) gives it the melt in the mouth texture. It's powdery and soft and impossible to stop eating once you start.

What do you call a lot of rabbits? A herd? Kinda scary when they all group together...
Looks like they could do serious damage....

To make them cuter, and a little more interesting - I added a little coloring to the dough and added eyes and 'ears' to make 'em little bunnies. Seeing that it's their year - I thought it would be nice to have a little homage for them. 

Almond nibs for ears gives the cookies just what it needs - taste and look! Apart from the rich softness of the cookies, you get a little crunch in the almonds.. and the rabbits get ears!