This cookies is very popular among Malaysian and one of the must-have cookie during festival. For certain recipes, they replaced ghee with butter, but truly authentic flavor, always use ghee. This is 'melt in the mouth' cookies. So Yummy...
Recipe source: Adapted from Hanieliza's Blog, just a little twist of my own.
Ingredient
Filling
200 gm Peanuts - fried
40 gm Castor Sugar
Dough
500 gm Plain flour
60 gm Castor sugar
200 gm Icing Sugar
200 gm Icing Sugar
250 gm Ghee (clarified butter)
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/>Method:
Prepare filling
Skin fried peanuts and process in a food processor until fine. Transfer to a bowl and mix with sugar. Set aside.
Prepare dough
- Sift flour into a mixing bowl and add-in castor sugar. Add-in Ghee and mix well until it become soft dough.
- Grease baking tray and preheat oven to 180C.
- Take a small portion of dough (thumb-size) and flatten it slightly on the palm. Top with some peanut filling and enclose. Shape into an oval and arrange in baking tray.
- Bake cookies for 20 -25 minutes. Cool on a wire rack, then coat with icing sugar.
- Store cookies in an airtight container.
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