All along she thought it's hard to make but from Sonia's recipe, it seems super easy.
Off she went and got the ingredients and started baking. It's easy. Just dump everything into the bowl and mixed it.
She remembers that Sonia mentioned about putting walnut. First attempt, she blended the walnut but it was too fine. She decided to pound the walnut instead.
Kiasulism ...
End result...argh....all the cookies "huat ah" and stuck together.
Taste wise, it's still yummy.
Third batch Mamarazzi added Cocoa Powder and Cinnamon powder.
Gave a few "white mice" to try and they said tasted good . Of the two they preferred the original taste instead of Cocoa taste and the Cocoa tasted "common"....like Chocolate biscuits.
Gosh this month's electricity bill gonna shoot up high lor...But then maybe can save some money la as Kangkung price had reduced .
Our vegetable garden seems to be growing fine. Got some kangkung, sweet potatoes leaves, ginger, Pegaga and even the pumpkin plant is flowering.
Want the recipe? Here it is :-
Ingredients :
250 g plain flour
50g of pounded walnut
1 tsp of Cocoa powder(for the cocoa biscuits)
1 tsp of Cinnamon powder(for the cocoa biscuits)
1/2tsp baking powder
80g sugar(original recipe calls for 125g sugar)
1/2 tsp alkaline water(Air Abu/ 碱水)
1/2 tsp fine salt(Mamarazzi omitted this in the second batch of biscuits as she finds that the taste from the butter if salty enough)
20g salted butter
150g cooking oil or peanut oil
1 egg yolk(for glazing)
Method :
- shift and mix all the dry ingredient together. Rubber the butter to the flour. Then slowly add the oil till it forms a soft dough.
- make the dough into 50sen coin size balls and and use a bottle cap to press the center of each cookies
- Glaze the cookies with the egg yolk and bake in the oven 170C for about 25 minutes.
*recipe adapted from Sonia's blog. For the perfect Hup Tou Sou Cookies and better understanding, I think you better head over to Sonia's post on Hup Tou Sou Cookies ( 没有核桃的合桃酥)~~欢喜过马年. You know Mamarazzi's lesen lembu baking lah...tarak guarantee cantik and sedap .
Huat ah oops stuck ah pulak good try
ReplyDeletehahaha ya lor
DeleteWow! I salute your Mamarazzi... there is nothing on earth she would not try to cook and bake.
ReplyDeletewhen the moods comes la
DeleteHey I just watched TV documentary that people in China often ate walnuts to have supple and clear skin without using moisturizer at all. They showed a 70 something year old doctor whose face and legs are as good as a baby's.
ReplyDeleteya ka> But some allergic to nuts leh
DeleteI seriously wanna start planting vegetables now!!! That will save me some money each month! Even RM10 saved is still money saved.
ReplyDeletedo plant la.
DeleteI spotted a new word!!!! Kiasulism...
ReplyDeleteYou know, when I see "hap tou soh", I always think of oink oink lard.. They always say, if got "chue yau" then the cookies will taste better.. But I think if we use good quality ingredients, plus good *ahem* baking skills, I think the cookies will still taste as nice..
ReplyDeleteAnd looking at the photos, I already know the cookies sure taste yummylicious and I really salute mamarrazi for "kam yau sum kei" to bake so many batches.. Degil.. Nak jugak dapat (the best result) sampai dapat yer?
now ard is expensive lor..no bakery uses that lor. All if home made baru maybe will use that la
DeleteBaking mood! I see FB also a lot of people baking.. that motivates me as well.. but havent start yet.. kids are pestering though.. see when we will start the marathon.. might never come too.. hahaha..
ReplyDeleteyea lor CNY coming so everyone started baking lor
Delete4th batch coming up? hehe...
ReplyDeletehahaha no la
DeleteSweet potato leave like in my own garden! You are lucky that Mamarazzi is such a pastry chef!
ReplyDeleteALOHA from Honolulu
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yup...nice right?
DeleteGood Monday morning....
ReplyDeleteI guess all the bakers' electricity bills are high this month! Happy baking... these are my favourite too!
Sure shoot up high ...
Deletemamarazzi must be busy baking like a crazy woman last week huh?? since she is "distributing" her cookies to many friends around.. and thank you mamarazzi, i've got her pineapple tarts, walnut cookies (both plain and chocolate flavored), bread and also "ngar goo" chips.. thank you thank you!!! :)
ReplyDeletewelcomed
Deleteand know what?? i've already finished walloping the tarts, cookies and bread into my stomach over the long weekend!! muahahahaha, that was only one reason - because they tasted so nice lah.. errr, i didn't taste or smell anything alkaline at all, the cookies were crunchy and just the right sweetness for me.. sekaligus i put the cookies one by one into my mouth, and pop-pop-pop, now you see it now you don't!!! :p
ReplyDeleteFast fast eat better coz later lau foong susah
Deletei heard somewhere before that the "hup tou sou" nowadays don't contain any walnut in it anymore, expensive mah, so many will just put maybe peanuts to replace the walnut.. don't know true or not?? or probably most of them just use flavoring instead of real walnut powder/pieces.. but of course i can bite the walnut pieces in mamarazzi's homemade ones, nice lah.. "hup tou sou" also one of my favorite cookies dei..
ReplyDeleteyea coz mahal leh...100gm rm5.30...means 1kg RM50plus wor. and no more using oink oink oil too
DeleteOnce a year baking for our most important festival, never mind the higher electricity bill lah. :P
ReplyDeleteYour family, relatives and friends will enjoy your fruits of labour.
hahahaha.....once a year la
Deletekangkung price has reduced?? errr, i saw somewhere on FB today that kangkung price has increased again.. wah, increased reduced increased, such a roller-coaster pricing like commodities huh?? no wonder our dear PM need to use kangkung as an example to explain his theory on the economics of the country.. wow, little leafy veggie but large contributions..
ReplyDeleteentah...but all over price have increase la coz petrol increase lor
DeleteOkay la the rupa.. senonoh jugak and got that classic hup tou sou look. Seeing you baking these, naik sikit my semangat to start baking too:))
ReplyDeletejom bake
DeleteWah! Ini Mamarazzi sure is baking a storm!
ReplyDeletePity Auntie Lina cannot taste any. Wuuuuwuuuuwuuu
ya lor...sorry oh :(
DeleteGood lah... Mamarazzi has tanah that can be used to plant veges.
ReplyDeleteNowadays must keep cost down. Everything shoot up already
lucky selangor free water :p Pay 20sen only
DeleteI've never use alkaline water before, in fact don't know where to buy. Oil is ok and as long as no smell, its fine for cookies. The recipe is new to me and love the cookies. Enough of baking for this month yet I am keeping the recipe aside.
ReplyDeleteyou can get from any kedai runcit or bakery supplies shop. Just ask for Air Abu
DeleteThanks for trying out ya. after thinking, Frankly I suggest not to add walnut, sometime the walnut skin tasted like how you hubby said " chemical " taste. Try out one batch without walnut and see..By the way, I simply use "Red Eagle" cooking oil which flavoured with peanut oil.
ReplyDeleteoooh really ah....i didnt know that. Thanks for the tips :)
DeleteOh ya, don't omit the fine salt (maybe you can add 1/4tsp), this is an important ingredient as you will taste a hint of saltiness, then only taste nice mar..The 20g salted butter will not taste salty..
ReplyDeleteoh...okie....thanks :)
DeleteWow, quite good for first attempt. I have not try to bake yet. Truly admire you :)
ReplyDeleteSaja wanna try out lor. recipe was very easy to follow
DeleteWow, saw lots of vege, all growing fine, next time can have self plant vege already lo!!! =]
ReplyDeletehave not harvest yet
DeleteIt looks really good though! Wow! You're baking all these wonderful cookies for CNY! I tried some of it too! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's delicious!
thanks for the compliments
DeleteYum! Yum! Lucky thing kucing still so kurus...all the nice things to eat, mama makes.
ReplyDeletecoz eat in moderation lo
DeleteWah so rajin baking. You got greenfingers cos your vege garden is looking good.
ReplyDeletenot bad la...Hope will grow more then can harvest
DeleteYou are growing ginger? I want to try it but not sure if our growing season will be long enough. I am going to give it a shot though.
ReplyDeleteyup....got tiny piece of ginger in the kitchen so just plonk it in the garden
DeleteThose cookies look amazing! Oh btw Kathy, wanted to tell you quite some time ago, i can't publish the comments you left on my blog as the comment box you commented clashed with "intense debate" lol, sorry about that >_<
ReplyDeleteoh i see....hmmm...i wonder how to do that. Coz am using phone to view
DeleteTak cantik is ok...most important sedap. Hup Toh Soh finished!
ReplyDeletehahaha thanks
DeleteWow, thanks for the recipe, see if I got the time to bake bo....
ReplyDeletehope you enjoy baking that too
DeleteI love Hup Tou Sou too... but not almond biscuit.... that taste so "cockroach"...
ReplyDeleteLOL.....maybe rancid?
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