Almond Cookies

Baking Almond Cookies is a MUST! every Chinese New Year for me. It has kind of become synonymous with my festive giving. A good friend CT in particular wanted to order the cookies from me. Where do I find the time to take orders and bake? It's more of a joy to bake for all my dear friends and relatives and those who appreciate the cookies. A colleague of mine also loves these cookies. She once ordered 12 bottles of peanut cookies when I baked some to raise funds for a mission trip for the church.

Thanks to my cousin's wife who gave me the recipe when she came to my place for Christmas dinner a few years ago. She is great at baking and she would take orders every CNY. It seems that she can meet orders of up to a few hundred bottles of cookies/tarts every CNY! I really admire her for she does this even though she is working! She would bake the moment she reaches home from work and would not stop until midnight for the few weeks prior to CNY.

This recipe also works well for ground peanuts. For peanut cookies, I put in more than 250g, maybe about 300g. This makes the cookie really crumbly and melt-in-the-mouth.

Ingredients

1. 250g ground almond/peanut
2. 220g fine sugar
3. 550g plain flour
4. 1/2 tsp salt
5. 3 tsp baking powder
6. 2.5 tsp baking soda
7. 1.5 bowls of canola oil

Method
1. Fry ground almond without oil until fragrant.
2. Mix everything together except the oil.
3. Add in oil to form a firm dough.
4. Roll out dough to about 1/2cm thickness and cut into desired shapes with a
cookie cutter.
5. Bake at 180 degrees Celcius for about 20n minutes.