Eat.Play.Cook: Cook: Melt in the mouth Kuih Bangkit

Kuih Bangkit has always been one of my favourite cookies during Chinese New Year. Love how it melts in my mouth with a hint of coconut fragrance. Oh... yummy!!!

My melt in the mouth Kuih Bangkit

I find it hard to get a good recipe for Kuih Bangkit and I kinda give up four years ago when the batch that I made turns out to be hard. It tasted ok but the texture is a total disaster. So for the past few years I did not make any Kuih Bangkit for Chinese New Year because as many of you know, it is very tedious to make Kuih Bangkit and when it turns out badly, it just kinda spoil the mood...

I don't know what got into me this year but after making two batches of peanut cookies, I decided to give Kuih Bangkit another chance. Popped into Phoon Huat to get some baking supplies and off I go to try out another Kuih Bangkit recipe...

After 4 hours in kitchen, I finally found a successful recipe!!!! But I must say it is hard work and super tiring...from baking the flour to moulding the cookies which takes ages as the dough really dries up fast so have to keep adding coconut milk/water.

All in all, I am satisfied with my batch but I am not sure if I would like to do another batch this year... maybe next year :p

But this recipe is definitely a keeper hence sharing it here with all :)

INGREDIENTS:
(Makes 4 small red bottles of cookies- about 200 pieces)

1. 400g of sago flour
2. 400g of tapioca flour
3. 100g of rice flour

4. 8 pandan leaves (washed, dried and tear into small pieces)5. 350g of icing sugar
6. 200ml of coconut milk
7. 6 egg yolks

METHODS:

1. Place the sago flour, tapioca flour, rice flour and pandan leaves onto a baking tray (as shown).

Place the three flour onto the baking tray.

2. Preheat oven to 150 degree Celcius and turn on the oven fan function , place the tray into the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes. I would stir the flour every 5-10 minutes.

3. Once the pandan leaves dries up and the flour appear to the more fluffy and light, it is done.

Light and fluffy

4. Remove the tray from oven. Then remove the pandan leaves and sieve the flour.

Sieve the flour.

5. Once that is done, leave the flour aside to let it cool down.

6. While waiting for the flour to cool down, place the icing sugar and the egg yolk into a mixing bowl. Using medium speed, blend it into a mixture.

Icing sugar and egg yolks.

7. The mixture should appear to be pale yellow when it is done.

Egg yolk and icing sugar mixture.

8. Next, add in the coconut milk bit by bit while mixing it in.

Added coconut milk.

9. By now, the sieved flour should be warm and not too hot now. Add the icing sugar/egg yolk/coconut milk mixture slowly into the flour, mixing them up as you added the mixture in. The dough will be a bit crumbly and doesn't stick much.

10. Take a portion of the dough out, add some coconut milk so that the dough is workable. As long as it can be moulded, it is fine. Roll them using rolling pin and cut out using cookie cutter. The dough is quite crumbly so when push the cookie out from the cutter, have to be careful.