Mandarin Cookies for Chinese New Year

by Heavenly Housewife on 21. Feb, 2010 in Chinese New Year, Cookies, baking, mandarins


How many cookies must a girl eat in order to achieve double happiness?

Chinese New Year began on Februaruy 14th, and I had planned to do a post on it, but I got a little bit bombarded. Lucky for me, a little birdy told me that Chinese New Year lasts 15 days! Better late then never, I scoured the internet for a cool Chinese sweet that I could make on my blog. A lot of them intimidated me or had some unusual ingredients that I would have trouble sourcing, so basically, this is my own take on a Chinese New Year sweet. Why mandarins? Well, according to Wikipedia, “mandarin oranges are the most popular and most abundant fruit during Chinese New Year.” The word for mandarins, when pronounced in Chinese, sound like the Chinese words for prosperity and fortune. I’m all for that :D . As it is customary to give eachother little gifts during this time, I have made you little mandarin cookies.


Mr P and I wish you all a prosperous Year of the Tiger.

Heavenly Housewife’s Mandarin Cookies
This recipe makes about 3 dozen cookies.
Ingredients:
225g butter
80g sugar
2 teaspoons of water
the zest of one orange
orange food colouring
2 cups of all purpose flour, sifted
whole cloves

Directions
Preheat oven to 325°F/ 160°C .
Cream the sugar and butter together, and then add the water, orange zest and food colouring. Add the flour.
Once combined, transfer dough to plastic wrap and let it sit in the refrigerator for several hours.
Shape into little mandarins. Put one clove into the top of each mandarin cookie (to mimic a stem.) Arrange cookies on a parchment lined baking tray and bake for 20 minutes.

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61 Responses to “Mandarin Cookies for Chinese New Year”

  1. vickys 23. Feb, 2010 at 1:11 pm #

    Awww they look toooo cute!!! Happy Lunar New Year to you!!! :) I imagine you have to eat a fair bit of those cookies for double happiness (excuses, excuses!)

  2. Ju (The Little Teochew) 23. Feb, 2010 at 2:41 pm #

    Totally impressive!!!

  3. Angie's Recipes 23. Feb, 2010 at 2:56 pm #

    If you didn't say that's a cookie, I would probably take it as a mandarin fruit! Beautiful!

  4. Ephemeral Evidence 23. Feb, 2010 at 5:46 pm #

    I love your blog…it always brings a smile :) Happy New Year!

  5. lorenabr 23. Feb, 2010 at 9:29 pm #

    Congrats dear, I just gave you an award:) Enjoy

  6. Ozoz 23. Feb, 2010 at 10:24 pm #

    Lovely……cookies….citrus. These are a few of my favourite things!

  7. Kristin 24. Feb, 2010 at 12:36 am #

    I don't even want to think about how many of those I could consume! YUM!

  8. petite nyonya 24. Feb, 2010 at 10:55 am #

    Oh my, the cookie is so cute! Hope you had a wonderful CNY celebration too! Lots of prosperity to you & family!

  9. The Blonde Duck 24. Feb, 2010 at 12:06 pm #

    The bear, like our friend Winnie the Pooh, has a tiny bit of a brain.

  10. JennyMac 24. Feb, 2010 at 1:09 pm #

    Those sound amazing!!!!

  11. Sophie 28. Feb, 2010 at 11:22 am #

    Hello darling! Brussels calling!!

    Your cookies look mouthwatering!!

    MMMMMM,…

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