Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Hari Raya Kueh Recipes

Cornflake Macaroons



Ingredients
1 egg
100g castor sugar
1/8 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp salt
180g honey-coated cornflakes, crushed
Sugar decorates
Small paper cups
Method
Preheat oven to 150°C. Line baking trays with non-stick parchment paper.

Beat egg, sugar, vanilla essence and salt until light and creamy. Gradually beat in crushed cornflakes to make a moist and crumbly mixture.

Drop a teaspoon of mixture (push through a small mould and pinch up with your fingers into a small pyramid) onto the lined baking trays. Top up the macaroons with sugar decorates.

Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until just beginning to brown. Gently loosen macaroons with a spatula and transfer onto a wire rack to cool.

Cornflake Cookies



Ingredients
110g butter
110g castor sugar
1/2 tsp grated rind of lemon or orange
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg yolk
100g cornflakes, crushed lightly

Sift lightly:
125g self-raising flour
1 tbsp corn flour

Method
Cream butter, sugar and essence until the mixture turns light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and lemon rind. Fold in sifted flour and mix. Put mixture into the refrigerator to chill for half an hour until it turns slightly firm.

Drop teaspoonfuls of mixture onto the crushed cornflakes. Shape into balls and place on lightly-greased baking trays and bake in preheated oven at 170°C for 20—25 minutes or until lightly golden in colour. Cool on wire racks before storing in airtight containers.

Suji Cookies



Ingredients
250g ghee
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
500g plain flour
2 teaspoons bicarbonate soda (using this will give the cracking effect)
170g icing sugar
3/4 teaspoon fine salt

Method
1. Melt ghee over low heat or use the microwave oven for about 10-15secs and leave it to cool
2. Add vanilla essence to cooled ghee
3. Sift flour, bicarbonate soda, icing sugar and salt into mixing bowl
4. Pour ghee mixture in flour mixture and knead well to form a firm dough.
5. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
6. Roll dough into melt-in-your-mouth ball sizes and place on greased tray and bake for 25 - 30 minutes till cooked but not brown. The cookies should be white and crumbly in texture.

Suji Cookies Plain Version

Ingredients
200g ghee (minyak sapi laa..)
200g castor sugar
a pinch of salt

1 tspn of soda bicarbonate
350g flour
(sifted)

Method
With a wooden spatula, mix together ghee and sugar until creamy, add in the salt and mix again.

Add in the flour bit by bit until you get a soft and not sticking -to your hands consistency (agak leh terap laa...)

Roll the mixture approximately 1cm thick and cut the with a cookies cutter. If you don't have cookies cutter you can just cut the the dough into small even cubes.

Place the cookies on a greased tin and bake in the oven at 170'C for about 15 minutes.

- once the cookies are cooked, place it on a rack to let it cool before removing it into an air tight container.


Selamat Mencuba!

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