Chinese Peanut Cookies Recipe
Soft and fluffy with a slightly crunchy interior that's full of peanut goodness. You'll fall in love with these easy to make Chinese peanut cookies.
Equipment
- 1 Food processor
Ingredients
- 55 g Unsalted roasted peanuts
- 110 g Smooth peanut butter
- 1/4 tsp Table salt
- 40 g Powdered sugar
- 30 g White granulated sugar
- 185 g All purpose flour
- 15 g Unsalted butter melted
- 50 g Vegetable oil
Instructions
- Start by throwing your roasted peanuts into a food processor. Give the food processor a few spins to grind the peanuts down into a semi-fine texture that still has little bits of peanuts left. This is to ensure that the cookies will have a bit of crunch when you bite into them. If you don’t own a stand mixer then you just throw the peanuts into a ziplocked bag and crush the peanuts that way using a dough roller.
- Once you have crushed the peanuts into your desired consistency, set them aside. Now in a large mixing bowl, add in your peanut butter, followed by your melted butter and cooking oil.
- Then add in your white granulated sugar, followed by your powdered sugar.
- Now add in your table salt and the grind peanuts from earlier.
- Then sift in your all purpose flour and mix everything together until you no longer see any white flour spots on the dough.
- Now take a spoon about the size of a Tbsp and scoop out the dough.
- Shape the dough into a round ball by rolling it in the palms of your hand.
- Then place each cookie dough onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper about 1-1.5 inches about to prevent the cookies from touching each other when baking. Yes, the cookies will spread and expand slightly when baking.
- Now top each cookie with half of a peanut.
- Gently press down on the peanut so that it sticks to the cookie dough.
- Then prepare an egg wash by whisking 1 egg with a tsp of milk together.
- Apply the egg wash evenly all around the cookie making sure to coat the sides as well. The better a job you do of applying the egg wash to the cookies, the prettier they will look when baking.
- Finally bake the cookies in a pre-heated oven at 350°F (180°C) for about 20-22 minutes until the cookies are golden brown. They will have a slight crack to them at the top which is the signature look of these cookies so do not be alarmed if you see them cracking away in the oven baking.