Popular Traditional Chinese New Year Cookies : Tapioca Cookies / 番婆饼 / Kuih Bangkit

Here is another of my favorite CNY cookies. Tapioca cookies also melt in the mouth with pandan leaf, coconut and nutty taste. It's fun to make.

Ingredients:

225g tapioca flour

3 pandan leaves

1 egg yolks

80g icing sugar

200ml coconut milk

Instructions:

1) Cut pandan leaves into small pieces 3” and bury them in the tapioca flour in a baking tray. Place in a 90°C oven for about 1 hour. let the tapioca flour to cool.

2) Whisk egg yolk and sugar in a large bowl until creamy.

3) Add in the cooked tapioca flour and slowly add in the coconut milk little by little into mixture. Mix with a spatula by hand until all flour and coconut cream are mixed then gently knead to form a dough . Dough should be soft abit dry and not sticky.

4) Dust the mould with extra cooked flour, press dough hard into a mould. Trim excess dough. Tap gently on hard surface / press the press cookie cutter to release the

and repeat... Add a little coconut milk into the dough if the dough turned too dry. Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet in a baking tray.

5) Bake in preheated oven at 160c for 20-25mins depending on the size of the cookies.Remove and allow cookies to cool completely. Store in an air tight container.

1) Cut pandan leaf into small pieces 3” and bury them in the tapioca flour in a baking tray. Place in a 90°C oven for about 1 hour. let the tapioca flour to cool.

2) Whisk egg yolk and sugar in a large bowl until creamy.

Add in the cooked tapioca flour and slowly add in the coconut milk little by little into mixture.

Mix with a spatula by hand until all flour and coconut cream are mixed then gently knead to form a dough .

Dough should be soft a bit dry and not sticky.

4) Dust the mould with extra cooked flour, press dough hard into a mould. Trim excess dough. Tap gently on hard surface / press the press cookie cutter to release the cookies and repeat...Add a little coconut milk into the dough if the dough turned too dry.

Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet in a baking tray.

5) Bake in preheated oven at 160c for 20-25mins depending on the size of the cookies.Remove and allow cookies to cool completely. Store in an air tight container.