Baking
Chinese New Year cookies from Ikea
You bought your Chinese New Year cookies from Ikea?!
Yes I did, to try.
I was in Ikea shopping for pussy willows and saw that Ikea too had jumped onto the Chinese New Year bandwagon and were selling cookies. Why I decided to take the plunge was because I saw the cookies were from Backofen which I [...]
Chinese New Year Goodies - Love letters (Kuih Kapit)
Picture credit of Shaun@KL and Brenda Lee
What is Chinese New Year without the ubiquitous Love Letters or Kuih Kapit making an appearance? Go to any Chinese home during this festival time and you can almost be assured that you will be served some form of this biscuit.
Some people call them egg rolls, but egg [...]
Chinese New Year Goodies - Kuih Bangkit or Kueh Bangkit
Picture credit of cheerinotes_s
I don’t have a recipe for Kuih Bangkit but I wish I did. I love these cookies! For me, after pineapple tarts, nothing else comes as close to saying that its Chinese New Year. I’m not sure if there is an English name for Kuih Bangkit though.
Kuih Bangkit or sometimes called Kueh [...]
Chinese New Year goodies - Pineapple Tarts
Picture credits of chernwei, su-lin and Ju-x
With Chinese New Year (CNY) around the corner, I thought to showcase some CNY goodies which one is wont to find in abundance during this festive period.
Chinese New Year is not Chinese New Year without Pineapple Tarts. Be they open pineapple jam tarts or pineapple rolls you will [...]
