Kueh Belandah Chinese New Year Cookies

Kueh Belandah (Love Letter) Chinese New Year Cookies Recipes
Kueh Belandah (Love Letter) this Chinese New Year Cookies was the most common cookies taken during Chinese New Year and here are the recipes I like to share with all Kueh Belandah (Love Letter) lover.

Kueh Belandah (Love Letter) Ingredients:
1. 7 large eggs
2. Fine Sugar 550g (a little under 2 1/2 cups)
3. 3 Whole fresh grated coconut (about 3 1/2 pounds in weight)
4. 600g (a little over 2 1/2 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
5. 2 tbsp. rice flour

Kueh Belandah (Love Letter) Baking Method Step By Step:
1. Dry-fry flour for a few minutes and allow to cool. Squeeze coconut for thick milk and reserve shreds for additional thin milk if batter is too thick. Beat eggs with sugar until completely dissolved. Place fried flour in a large mixing bowl, make a well into the centre and add beaten egg. Fold in gently from the sides and stir to form a smooth paste. Add thick coconut milk and continue stirring until all lumps are removed. To ensure this, pass mixture through a think muslin cloth or fine colander. Set aside.

2. Place charcoal in your special brazier and heat until they become glowing ember. Always have glowing hot charcoal in another stove on standby to add on.

3. Squeeze grated coconut with muslin cloth to obtain coconut milk. Boil coconut milk with 2 tablespoons sugar taken from the quantity stated in the above for 3 minutes.

4. Oil each belandah mould on both sides (one person should be able to handle two at the same time) and heat on charcoal.

5. Now comes the hard part. Holding mould at a slight angle over the pot of batter, pour a ladleful on the mould that is on the horizontal so that excess is drained off immediately. Quickly shut the mould and place on charcoal grill. Cook for about 2 minutes and turn over. Check by opening the mould and when it is light brown, use a sharp knife to scrape off excess from the side of the mould.

6. Open mould and with one quick roll of the free hand, roll into a cylinder about 1/2 inch in diameter. If this is difficult, fold over twice to make loose triangles.

Kueh Belandah Baking Tip:
Add a little warm water to used coconut shreds and squeeze out thin milk. This can be added to the existing batter as you go along as it settles a little and becomes thick.

Kueh Belandah Note:
You will need Kueh Belandah (Love Letter) molds to make these Kueh Belandah (Love Letters).