New Year's Peanut Cookies

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  • Time icon
    Total Time
    40mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    18
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    335

Traditional crumbly peanut cookies, topped with a whole peanut, a favorite for Lunar New Year celebrations.

recipe updated Oct 14, 2020

Ingredients

  • Peanuts icon
    Peanuts
    595 g
  • Powdered sugar icon
    Powdered sugar
    120 g
  • Peanut oil icon
    Peanut oil
    240 ml
  • Coconut oil icon
    Coconut oil
    2 tablespoons
  • Peanuts icon
    Peanuts
    as needed
  • Egg yolk icon
    Egg yolk
    1

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Food processor
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon Pastry brush
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Medium bowl
  • kCook icon Baking sheet - 18 x 13"

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 170°C
  2. Add peanuts to a clean medium bowl
  3. Grind until fine
  4. Add powdered sugar, peanut oil and coconut oil to a clean large mixing bowl
  5. Transfer
  6. Blend until dough forms
  7. Roll into balls
  8. Transfer dough to 2 baking sheets
  9. Flatten slightly
  10. Top with peanuts
  11. Add egg yolk to a clean small bowl
  12. Beat briefly
  13. Brush cookies with eggs lightly
  14. Bake baking sheets until light golden - 15 min, 170°C
  15. Transfer onto cooling rack
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