TOP 10 COOKIES FOR RAYA

Since  the festive time (Eid) is just  around the corner, here  are  Top 10  Cookies For Raya   that are made year after year.    This is the perfect time to savor and share these little treats for family and friend.

The process begins  1-2 weeks before the festival and this time of the year, most  family would gather around to bake these cookies.  With a combined effort,  jars of delicious cookies could be made faster as each member of the family is assigned to do the task.

Top 10 Cookies for Raya.  To view each recipe, click on the title  of the cookies.

1.  Suji Cookies    

Pleasantly buttery and slightly crunchy cookies.  It uses clarified butter (ghee).  It will remains white after baking.  Place them 1 in apart as these expand while baking


2.   Black Sesame Seeds Cornflakes Cookies                                                      

These cookies are the first one to disappear from my cookie collection.    You can't stop gobbling them, the are really GOOD.  Black sesame seeds and crushed cornflakes are used for making  Black Sesame Seeds Cornflakes Cookies


3.    Cocolate Almond (Cokdam) Cookies                                                                           

Deliciously simple yet elegant and tasty.  Chopped almond, chocolate spread and cocoa powder are added for making this wonderful  treat.    Roll out the dough in between 2 plastic sheet to avoid sticking


4.  Semolina Cookies/ Biskut Suji

One of the popular cookies of  yesteryears. . It is still made during festive seasons.    These contain semolina but I have one without it in this collection, it is called Suji Cookies.


5.    Cornflakes Cookies

They are quite addictive, crunchy outside but chewy inside.   Crushed cornflakes added a great texture
                                           
6.  Honey Cornflakes Cups Recipe 

Only 4 ingredients to whip up these cups.  Melted honey, butter and sugar are added to cornflakes then spoon onto cake cases for baking


7.    Daisy Cookies / Biskut Dahlia                                                      

Basically these are buttery, melt in the mouth butter cookies.  It was pretty laid on a plate due to its lovely shape made with special mold or use  a cookie press.  It is a bit tricky to make the dough,  too soft turns the cookies flat

8.  Date Tart.                                          

One of seasonal favorites,   commonly stuffed with pineapple,  but I have made slight changes by filling it with pitted date.  The beauty of these tart was pinching the sides with tart pinchers

9.   Crisp Chocolate Cookies Recipe  

Made with oil. these cookies require 1-2 hours chilling time.  Place them 2 in apart as they really spread during baking.  Turned out crisp but soft inside

10,   Biskut Makmur

A traditional biscuit made with ghee.  It was melt in the mouth usually shape like a leaf, stuffed with crushed peanut and icing sugar.  Nowadays, it is shaped into a small ball coated with icing sugar

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MUTTON KORMA RECIPE

Mutton pieces  are marinated in yogurt then slow cooked until tender.

There a tons of recipe for Korma.  One of them uses ground almond, cashew or grated coconut like this  and   this  . You can use chicken, beef or lamb for  cooking the recipe. .  .

This Mutton Korma uses  pounded fried onion and to be marinated for at least an hour.    The marination not only gives a tasty flavor  but also help to tenderize the meat.

Another difference  was, this Mutton Korma does not involve sauteing the spices in ghee as  you normally do, The spices, yogurt  and ghee are added together with mutton.

Pounded cinnamon, clove, peppercorn and cardamom are also  used

HOW TO MAKE SAMBAL BALADO RECIPE

A popular hot and spicy sauce   made of  coarsely blended fresh red chili. onion then fried in oil until fragrant.

How to make Sambal Balado is popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

It is often put atop of fried vegetable such as brinjal, tempeh, chicken. seafood  or even eggs.  These item have to be fried before adding the sambal balado,

You may add ginger, garlic and turmeric to the chicken, meat or seafood before frying them,

I have added few bird's eye chili to make it extra spicy or reduce  the seeds of the chili  if  you want a milder version.

BAKED POTATO WEDGES RECIPE

A wonderful and healthier  way to enjoy potato wedges  is  by baking  them in an oven.

I have boiled them for 5 minutes or about 3.4 cooked prior to baking.   Prick with fork to see Baked Potato Wedges are done. We would complete the process by baking them.   With this method it allows you to reduce  cooking time.

These Baked Potato Wedges have some heat due to the addition of pepper and chili powder.  If you are serving small kid, you may reduce or omit those altogether.

Other snack recipes your might want to try:

Vegan Homemade Doughnuts

Egg Curry Puffs from scratch

Braided Masala Bread

6 DELICIOUS RECIPES OUT OF PIZZA CRUST

There are more than pizza  you could made out of  it.   And these  6 delicious recipes out of pizza crust prove it!   Click on each title to view full recipe..

How to make Chicken Calzone 

If you are looking for savory treat, you should try this, stuffed with chicken.  Feel free to stuff with a variety of fillings of your choice.  Omit chicken and replace  with  veggies with cheese if you are vegetarian. .


                                        

Yeast Pie Crust 

Turned the recipe into mini pies that are lighter in calories  stuffed with sweet filling

Pizza Dough Apple Hand Pies

Made with yeast free pizza dough  The dough  is super easy to work with.  You may choose other shapes of your choice.





Tomato Pizza Tart
A simple savory tomato tart  made with juicy tomatoes, topped with cream cheese, mayonnaise, tomato sauce, salt and pepper.  Play around with cheese or herbs  option but this  basic recipe is timeless.

 

Tuna Pizza Cups 
These small bites are stuffed with spicy tuna.  Replace tune with chicken, meat or  sausage if you like them
                                   

                          
Pizza Rolls 

These rolls taste exactly as regular pizza but the only difference is that it comes in rolls with a filling of your choice. They are practically great for parties, snack or lunch box.

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SHEET PAN PANCAKE with cranberries

Another quick way to enjoy your breakfast without spending hours making it is to make this Sheet Pan Pancake with cranberries.

From this basic recipe, you can create few variations by  changing the topping.   You may choose one of these:

Sliced banana and chocolate chips
Swirls of strawberry jam with sliced strawberries
Blueberry, raspberry or mango

If you're not a fan of sweet thing.opt for savory ones like chicken, bacon or medley of  vegetables

This Sheet Pan Pancake with cranberries is also egg free, adjust the sweetness to your liking.  Make it lactose free by using soy or coconut milk in place of milk.

Similar recipes you might be interested:
Vegan Banana Pancake

Moist Banana Muffin

Carrot Apple Muffins

WHOLE WHEAT EGGLESS ROLLS RECIPE

Make a healthier option by making these  Whole Wheat Eggless  Rolls for your family.

Am reluctant to bake yeast rolls using whole wheat flour as they would be hard and tough.

All that  has changed ever since I tried these  Whole Wheat Eggless Rolls   Not only they are healthier but stay soft  for days,  I have kept a small piece just to test  how these rolls would be.

The steps are simple quite similar to regular flour.  You  can double the recipe  and make one big loaf.

I only get  8 rolls out of this recipe and let the dough rises for 2 hours before shaping.

Other bread recipes you should check:

Milk Bread Rolls Recipe

Braided Bread Rings

Eggless Custard Buns

EGGLESS LIGHT FRUIT CAKE RECIPE

A pleasing and easy Eggless Light  Fruit Cake  that was lighter and  can be enjoyed anytime of the year.

I used only half a cup  of  ready packed  dry fruits  but you may mix your own  consisting of  dried apricot, raisin, cranberries, fig, date  and many more   Increase the quantity of dry fruit up to  one cup.  for pretty presentation top it with  candied cherries.

Make sure you beat the yogurt, oil and sugar well until fluffy as to incorporate air as much as possible.

After adding flour.  use your spoon  to make quick circle  clockwise and cut in the center.  Do not over mix.  Tap pan a few times to release  air bubbles.

A friend of mine once  said ,  this Eggless Light Fruit Cake  was  as good as  their fruit cake  with eggs.  Give it a try!

Other cake recipes:

Easy Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe
Honeycomb Cake 

Date Bundt Cake Eggless
Oreo Butter Cake

CRISP CHOCOLATE COOKIES RECIPE

I always love a simple dessert to go with my cuppa like this Crisp Chocolate  Cookies,

This recipe contains least butter or oil yet they turned out crispy but soft inside.

You can use brown sugar instead of white sugar.   It yields a soft and sticky dough so it requires chilling it for 1 - 2 hours.  Once it became firm,  much easier to  shape them.

It is important to place  Crisp Chocolate Cookies at least 2 inches apart on greased  baking sheet. They really spread and become thinner so adjust the thickness  you want them to be..

Other cookies recipe you should check out:

Milk Cookies
Crunchy Sesame Cookies
Fruity Cookies

POTATO BREAD RECIPE

Enjoy this yummy quick bread  made with mashed potato, perfect for breakfast or in between snack.

My Potato Bread is made free of yeast so no waiting and kneading required.

I used 3 medium  potato,  peeled  and boil until tender.  Water level should be above potato.   Once cooked, mash it while still hot.

This Potato Bread was mildly sweetened but  you may add more if you prefer a sweeter bread.

Baked this for exactly 50 minutes so adjust according to your oven setting. .

Other  quick bread recipes:

Pumpkin Banana Bread

Blueberry Oatmeal Bread

Fantastic Apricot Bread

NASI GORENG KAMPUNG RECIPE

Nasi Goreng Kampung or Village Fried Rice is most popular dish  for breakfast in most Asian countries,

It is made with a day old rice that was left a night before.  A freshly cooked rice can be used but reduce the water a bit or cook it using a microwave oven. recipe  here  . .

This Nasi Goreng Kampung was spicy all due to addition of bird's eye chili so adjust accordingly to your liking, You can add vegetables like long bean, cabbage, carrot   or kangkong (water spinach) but am out of those so just added 2 sliced tomato.

Some might  like to top this rice with  egg with sunny side up or fried anchovies but I prefer to add anchovies when blending my onion and chili.

After frying the spices until fragrant,  push them to side of pan, heat little oil and crack the eggs.  When cooked add in rice, salt and tomato.  It is  now ready to be served.

CONDENSED MILK ROLLS RECIPE

A perfect sweet bread to accompany your morning cup of coffee or tea.

Condensed Milk Rolls is similar with other sweet bread recipe but with addition of sweetened condensed milk.

These rolls  require longer time to rise, in my case it tools more than  90 minutes.  Out of this dough I get 9 decent rolls.

It can be shaped into any shape you like, filled with sweet filling, braid or turn into one big loaf,

We love to dunk Condensed Milk Rolls in  freshly brewed coffee while watching a television show.  You may check other bread recipes I have baked over the years:

Spiral Apple Bread  

Soft Butter Rolls 

Chocolate Marble Bread

PERFECT OATMEAL QUICK BREAD RECIPE

This Perfect Oatmeal Quick Bread  is a  super easy, slightly sweet bread loaded with  nutritious rolled oat.

Added just a  quarter cup of sugar since I intend to add dried cranberries.  You may add more if you are not adding any  dried fruit.

Firstly,  I intend to make just a plain oatmeal bread but my hubby requested to add dried cranberries in the dough.

Am so glad this Perfect Oatmeal Quick Bread turned out perfect in texture and sweetness.

In fact the addition of cranberries  eliminate the use of extra butter and jam since this is great to eat on its own.  It is actually a lot easier then what  you think to make your own.   And the results are delicious.

Other quick bread recipes you should check out:

Irish Barmbrack

Fantastic Apricot Bread.

Pumpkin Banana Bread

PLUM HAND PIES USING 2 INGREDIENTS DOUGH

My first trial making this 2 ingredients dough  using  self rising flour and  Greek yogurt.

The dough can be used to make pizza, bread sticks, pretzels and many more.

I choose to turn this  into Plum Hand Pies Using 2 Ingredients Dough.  It comes  together pretty quick but it was damn sticky to work with.

Only  manage to get a decent size of  6 hand pies out of  this recipe.  As I ran out of fresh plums so added some green apple to make up to 2 cups.

My Plum Hand Pies Using 2 Ingredients Dough turned out soft with crisp edges.  Being a tart fruit, plums need more sugar to sweeten but am okay with this filling.

Other dessert you should check:

Buttery Light Fruit Cake

Min Pumpkin Tarts

Best Ever Eggless Cocoa Brownies

BROKEN GLASS COFFEE JELLY RECIPE

After many years, I have prepared this cold dessert but this time with different flavor. .

Using agar agar powder, this Broken  Glass Coffee Jelly was fun to make with proper planning.

It consists of 2 parts, coffee jelly that uses instant coffee in it.  This  coffee part must be prepared first as to allow it to cool and cut into 1/2 in cube.

Used a pack of agar agar powder, divide equally to make this Broken Jelly Coffee Jelly.  Once you have  coffee jelly ready. proceed to make milk mixture.

You can always opt for 2 or more flavors like orange, strawberry, pineapple instead of coffee

During the process, I have discovered a vital step to remove the jelly smoothly.   The secret was to apply a thin coating of vegetable oil before pouring over the cubed jelly.  The 10 x 6 in glass tray was perfect for this recipe.

Other dessert recipes you might be inyerested:

Vanilla Cake in Jar

Oreo Butter Cake

Cake Fruit Yogurt Parfait

CHOCOLATE MARBLE QUICK BREAD RECIPE

Serve this fresh  homemade Chocolate  Marble Quick Bread that was a breeze to make using a whisk.

Quick bread eliminates multiple steps,  kneading and waiting for  dough to rise.  With minimal efforts, we are rewarded with a gorgeous loaf/

Have reduced the sugar a bit since I intend to ice the cake later.  Am so glad that this Chocolate Marble Quick Bread turned out just right, the way I want it.

You can sub yogurt with sour cream if you have but  this MUNDELLA Premium  Natural  Yogurt I used did a great job.

It is a perfect tea companion and  swirls of vanilla and chocolate batter produce   impressively  beautiful treat.

Over the years, I have shared  some  quick bread recipes, here are  a few that you might be interested:

Vegan Homemade Doughnuts

Irish Barmbrack

Fantastic Apricot Bread

SAVORY FLOWER BREAD RECIPE

This Savory Flower Bread is soft, tender and tasty.  It was made with a basic sweet bread.

From the basic  bread dough, it is shaped just like a flower after proofing.  You may want to make your preferred filling either sweet or savory,

I stuffed mine with egg bhurji  (spicy scrambled eggs) and divided into 2.  That means each portion has 8 petals.   Turns into one big loaf that has 16 petals using  10 in pie plate or cake tin. Place 4 in the center, the rest around the tin.

Savory Flower Bread  goes well with egg bhurji, completed it within a day! ,

Other bread recipes you should check:

How to make Raisin Bread

Braided Bread Rings

Eggless Custard Buns

EASY SOUR CREAM CAKE RECIPE

A delightful and moist, Easy Sour Cream Cake for our tea-time treat this week.

There are tons of recipe for this cake that was rich and decadent, but sometimes you need just a quick dessert that was  simple and delicious.   That is what this Easy Sour Cream Cake for me,  the perfect easy treat to make. 

For lighter version, opt for oil  instead of butter  As for the topping,  chopped nuts like  walnut, pecan, pistachio, hazelnut  can be added in place of chocolate chips and double the sugar. 1/4 cup brown sugar plus 1/4 cup white sugar.

Despite using just a wire whisk, no-mixer, this cake  produces an incredible result,  tender and no-crack.

Other cake recipes  you should check out:

Tricolor Marble Cake

Mango Cake

Spiced Apple Bread

CRANBERRY BREAD RECIPE

Enjoy freshly baked Cranberry Bread  in this tender quick bread.

This delicious bread is made with plenty of dried cranberries and nut free.  Like most of quick bread recipe,  no mixer is needed, it is simply mix and stir all the ingredients.

For successful  quick breads. DO NOT OVER MIX.  Once they are combined,  mix as little as possible.  The mixture will contain some lumps.  The result is a soft, tender, cake-like texture.

Added half a cup of sugar and that was sufficient to sweeten this bread.  You  may add more if you like.  Just add one large egg instead of 2 small one.

Cranberry Bread turns out  wonderfully soft with right amount of sweetness.  It was a cross between cake and bread.  It does not need any frosting, we love to eat them just it is with  a cuppa.

Other quick bread  recipes:

No Yeast Braided Savory Bread

Cheesy Quick Bread

Blueberry Oatmeal Bread.