Spice Up Your Kitchen With These Chinese Holiday Cookie Recipes

Firstly, Chinese immigrants to the U.S. created this cookie in the mid 1800s. It is a modern spin on the Chinese walnut cookie. 

Most importantly, the nuts in the center of the cookie bring good luck. 

Chinese almond cookies are now commonly found all over Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China.  

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Traditionally in Asia they used rosewater for medical and religious purposes. In addition, it is a common sweetener in South Asian cuisine. 

These modern cookies add rose petals for an Instagrammable aesthetic. 

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This is the perfect Asian-American cookie. It traces back to Japanese and Chinese immigrants in California during the 1920s. 

While now they are mass-produced, fortune cookies started as a handmade pastry. 

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Street vendors sell these traditional Chinese sweets during the Lunar New Year season. They are especially popular in Malaysia and Indonesia. 

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Similarly, this is another Chinese-American New Year favorite. For example, you can make these cookies as gifts of buttery goodness for relatives. 

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This cookie uses a common Chinese seasoning, sesame, and makes it a part of a scrumptious dessert.

After all, New Year is the best time to strengthen your baking skills.

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This directly translates to “sticky cake." It is the traditional Chinese New Year’s cake. 

It is good luck because “nian” sounds identical to the word meaning “year” and “gao” sounds identical to “tall.” This cake symbolizes raising oneself taller in the coming year. 

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