The CNY peanut cookies are a New Year tradition in many families. The peanut cookies are made with peanut paste and shaped like gold ingots (symbol of wealth), which is the most important thing to have in life according to Chinese culture.
In some areas, peanuts can be replaced by other nuts such as almonds or walnuts.
The CNY peanut cookies are made for the New Year celebration, as peanut is considered a lucky food.
As peanut cookies are round in shape and gold color, peanut cookies also represent family full of happiness and harmony.
The peanut cookies need to be fried before baking them in oven, thus they can keep their golden color. The peanut cookies should be stored in air-tight container as peanut cookies will absorb moisture and change their texture.
Peanut cookies can taste better if peanut butter is used instead of peanut paste.
The peanut cookies are mostly made by elderly people, who make large batches of peanut cookies and share them with neighbors and family members. This way the peanut traditions and customs remain lively and strong in families .
There are peanut cookies shaped like ingots, peanut cookies shaped like gold bars or peanut cookies shaped like flower. Different peanut cookies have different meanings. For example peanut cookie with two layers of peanut paste and one layer of peanut butter is considered as wedding sign, and the peanut cookie with three layers represents birth of a child.
Peanut cookies are also eaten during Qingming Festival, which is sometime in April.
Chinese peanut cookies are different from peanut butter cookies because peanut paste is used instead of peanut butter for peanut cookies. Peanut paste can be made by grinding roasted peanuts or peanut butter into fine powder, then mixing the peanut powder with honey until the consistency is smooth and thick enough.
Peanut cookies are very easy to make and peanut cookies can be stored for many months.
Chinese peanut cookies bring luck and wealth into homes of those, who already have it.
Peanut cookies are usually eaten without milk or tea as peanut is the main ingredient of these peanut cookies. Peanut cookies can be used as a snack between meals and peanut cookies can be used as desserts.
Peanut cookies make a great gift; peanut cookies look very cute and they are bite-sized, easy to carry with everywhere.
Since peanut is considered as the luckiest food in China, peanut butter also becomes special type of prepared food instead of simple butter or cooking oil like most other peanut butters.
Peanut butter cookies are peanut butter mixed with flour or peanut butter mixed with egg, then fried and baked in oven. The peanut butter cookies made this way taste very good and they can be stored for a long time .
The peanut cookies also bring prosperity into homes of those who have it already. Peanut cookies can keep their taste for more than one year.
Peanut cookies are peanut butter shaped into golden bars or peanut shaped ingots for the New Year celebration.
There is no 'best' peanut cookie because different peanuts have different tastes, so it is better to try many peanut brands before selecting favorite peanut cookies brand .
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