peanut cookies

"Mum..." I ventured, not five minutes after packing the last love letter into its jar "next week, can we make the bang bang?" Mum looked at me. Contemplated, for half a second, and then "No. Too messy." It made sense. The last time we made kuih bankit (fondly known as "the bang bang" at our place), our kitchen was covered in a fine mist of tapioca flour for days. A short pause. "Maybe the peanut ones?" she thought, aloud.

These peanut cookies are a sublime mix of crunchy, sweet and salty. Conveniently bite-sized, you'll find yourself reaching for just one more... and then another, and another, and before you know it, they'll be all gone!

Peanut Cookies

makes approx 120

Ingredients

100g butter
100g margarine
200g peanuts (roasted and ground roughly)
25g sesame seeds (roasted)
200g white sugar
200g plain flour
1 egg (separated)
whole peanuts (optional)

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees (fan on).
21. Toss the butter, margarine, peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar, flour and egg yolk in a mixing bowl.

3. Rub the ingredients together. They will begin to form a dough. Knead the dough until it is shiny.

4. Using a teaspoon, scoop some of the mix up and roll it around in your hands to form a ball. Place the ball on a well greased oven tray and squish down using two fingers.
5. Here, you can either make a small indent in the cookie using the back of a chopstick, or stick a half peanut in the centre of each cookie.

6. Brush the cookies with egg white and pop in the oven to cook for approximately 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
7. Let the cookies cool on the tray. When they hit room temperature, loosen the base with a spatula or egg lift.

8. Enjoy! Mmmmm.... peanutty.....