Chinese New Year is a big event for Chinese and part of the holiday celebrations, various snacks and goodies are being prepared. Love Letters cookies or also known as Kuih Kapit is one of the popular cookies in Singapore and Malaysia during the Chinese New Year.
The cookies is mainly consists of rice and plain flour, coconut milk, water and eggs. The taste of this cookies is similar to sweet type of ice cream cones. The cookies is very fragrant due to coconut milk and sugar that caramelized and vey cripsy also.
(Adapted from: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mykitchen101en.com/delectable-homemade-kuih-kapit-love-letters-biscuit-light-and-crisp/amp/)
- 100g Rice Flour
- 50g Plain Flour
- 3 pcs Eggs
- 150g Coconut Cream
- 200g Water
- 100g Castor Sugar (can add 50g more if you want sweeter)
- ¼ tsp Salt
Procedure:
1. Whisk the eggs until foamy. You can use hand mixer is you have one.
2. Add in the coconut milk, water, sugar and salt, mix until sugar is thoroughly dissolved.
3. Sift in the rice flour and plain flour, mix until the batter is smooth.
4. Strain the batter to ensure no lumps, then rest the batter for 20 to 30 minutes.
5. Preheat the Love letter maker, pour in 1 tablespoon of batter. Amount of batter for each piece depends on the size of your mould.
6. Cook about 1 to 1.5 minutes or till the cookies turn golden brown. You'll get the right timing for your maker after few tries.
7. Fold the love letters very quickly and while still hot. The cookies cools down very fast and get hardened fast. Careful not to burn your hand when doing this
8. Repeat step 5 to 7 until all the batter are used up.
9. Keep the cooked love letters ib an air tight container to keep it crispy.
10. Enjoy it as a snack or with cup of coffee or tea.
