Cover Dou Dou Bake’s Lunar Cookies (Photo: Instagram / @doudou_bake)
Dou Dou Bake’s Lunar Cookies (Photo: Instagram / @doudou_bake)
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Procure your celebratory sweet treats from Kek Ni, Mei by Fat Spoon, Dou Dou Bake, and more
Chinese New Year is unequivocally a time to celebrate familiar connections and welcome the year with hopes of ensuing abundance and prosperity. However, as with every cultural festivity, it is also a time to devour anything edible in sight. Hearty reunion meals and traditional plates are almost always accompanied by a never-ending supply of snacks—specifically, cookies.
Not a single day of the celebratory season will pass without the presence of a red-lidded plastic jar filled to the brim with crumbly biscuits. Home bakers and bakeries have embraced the Year of the Dragon’s spirit with festive cookies from pineapple tarts to classic indulgences elevated by the season’s ingredients. We’ve compiled a list of cookie offerings to help you streamline your snack selection this Chinese New Year.
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Kek Ni’s CNY Mac Box
Founded and operated by a home baker based in USJ, Subang Jaya, Kek Ni focuses on pie and macaron creation. Each macaron has a distinctly high foot and is elaborately hand painted with images of pop culture icons. Its Chinese New Year treats are no different. Adorably decorated and shaped, macarons in this collection display a dragon and a festively dressed frog. Flavours offered for the season are lime pie, honeydew, black sesame, or chocolate orange, but they can be customised to your preference.
Order online at @kek.ni on Instagram.
CC The Baker’s CNY Cookies
Above CC The Baker‘s pandan coconut love letters or kuih kapit (Photo: Instagram / @cc.thebaker)
Above CC The Baker‘s pandan coconut love letters or kuih kapit (Photo: Instagram / @cc.thebaker)
CC The Baker‘s pandan coconut love letters or kuih kapit (Photo: Instagram / @cc.thebaker)
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CC The Baker is a self-proclaimed durian cake expert who specialises in treats without our national fruit. This year, the home bakery is boasting an array of Chinese New Year snacks. From walnut cookies to love letters, you’ll also be able to find savoury bites like salted egg seaweed and chicken floss egg rolls.
Find online at @cc.thebaker on Instagram.
Sunway Resort Hotel’s House of Seven Treasures Offerings
Above Treats from Sunway Resort Hotel (Photo: Sunway Resort Hotel)
Treats from Sunway Resort Hotel (Photo: Sunway Resort Hotel)
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Complementing its extensive line-up of Chinese New Year celebrations, Sunway Resort Hotel is offering an assortment of indulgent delights. Pineapple tarts, shortbread cookies, and Chinese New Year-themed macarons will be available from January 20 to February 24.
Sunway Resort Hotel
Address: 1, Persiaran Lagoon, Bandar Sunway, 47500 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. +603 7495 2009
Mei by Fat Spoon’s Matcha Pineapple Tarts
Above Mei by Fat Spoon‘s matcha pineapple tarts (Photo: Instagram / @meibyfatspoon)
Above Interior of the matcha pineapple tarts (Photo: Instagram / @meibyfatspoon)
Mei by Fat Spoon‘s matcha pineapple tarts (Photo: Instagram / @meibyfatspoon)
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Elevating the institutional pineapple tart, Mei by Fat Spoon has infused the treat with matcha powder. Homemade pineapple jam is enveloped in a crust crafted with a blend of Niko Neko Matcha. Decoratively flower-shaped and intensely green, these treats can be paired with tea or eaten by the handful on their own.
Whatsapp +6011 5416 3220 to order.
The RuMa Hotel and Residences’ Tantalising Treats
Above The RuMa Hotel and Residences‘ CNY cookies (Photo: The RuMa Hotel and Residences)
The RuMa Hotel and Residences‘ CNY cookies (Photo: The RuMa Hotel and Residences)
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Paying homage to traditional flavours, The RuMa Hotel and Residences has released a collection of three Chinese New Year cookies. Each flavour is symbolic of the new year’s ideals. Resilience, refinement, and love are encapsulated by black sesame, earl grey, and chocolate cookies, respectively.
The RuMa Hotel and Residences
Address: 7, Jalan Kia Peng, Kuala Lumpur, 50450 Kuala Lumpur. +603-2778 0745
Lachér Patisserie’s Chinese New Year Cookie Gift Sets
Making only the finest of French patisserie, Lachér Patisserie has transplanted its talents into the realm of Chinese New Year baking. Sablé cookies made exclusively with premium French butter and shortbread flavoured with matcha and black sesame are just some festive additions to its arsenal of desserts. Localising its selection this year is the inclusion of classic pineapple tarts.
Lachér Patisserie
Address: 17, Jln Teknologi 3/3A, Surian Industrial Park, 47810 Kota Damansara, Selangor. +603-6141 0888
The St Regis Kuala Lumpur’s Regal Dragon Cookie
Above The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur's regal dragon cookie (Photo: The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur)
The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur's regal dragon cookie (Photo: The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur)
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The St Regis Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese New Year treat selection has been curated by its executive pastry chef, Graff Kwok. The dragon’s tenacity is condensed into cookie form with a seasonal biscuit embossed with its iconography. You can also expect to find prosperity tarts, fortune cakes, and celebratory nian gao.
The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur
Address: 6, Jalan Stesen Sentral 2, Kuala Lumpur Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur. +603-2727 1111
Wing Heong BBQ Meat’s Bakkwa Bacon Cookies
Wing Heong BBQ Meat’s name tells you all you need to know about the brand—its signature is bakkwa. At the beginning of every new year, it uplifts its meat snacks by incorporating them into chocolate chip cookies. These cookies feature fewer dark chocolate chips and a less sugary crumb than their traditional counterparts. Crispy bakkwa chips are dotted throughout the bake, resulting in bursts of smokiness and an undeniable snap when bitten into.
Visit www.wingheong.com to order.
Happ’s Dragon Box
To satisfy your snacking needs, Happ has released themed gift boxes lined with fragrant tea and celebratory cookies. Its Dragon Box contains charcoal chocolate cookies and cranberry oatmeal cookies. Putting an ornamental spin on pineapple tarts this year are its Taiwanese pineapple tarts. Each tart is perfectly golden brown and shaped like a miniature pineapple.
Find online at @happ.com.my on Instagram.
Baker Next Door’s Pineapple Cubes
Baker Next Door is offering an iteration of pineapple tarts to usher in the year of the dragon. The bakery’s interpretation of pineapple cubes entails an infusion of mandarin orange peel and sea salt to balance out the treat’s defining decadence. Available in two varieties, pineapple cubes featuring jackfruit are also on offer.
Baker Next Door
Address: Lot FF-30, 1/F, 5, Persiaran Residen, Desa Parkcity, 52200 Kuala Lumpur. +6019-228 7676
Dou Dou Bake’s Lunar Cookies
Both of Dou Dou Bake‘s seasonal cookies (Photo: Instagram / @doudou_bake)
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Celebrating the Lunar New Year with bite-sized bakes is PJ bakery, Dou Dou Bake. Two festive cookies are a tribute to the season— the pistachio praline cookie and the osmanthus cookie. The first of the two is chewy but not quite cake-like and sprinkled with pistachio praline, while the latter is delicately crisp and infused with aromatic osmanthus.
Dou Dou Bake
Address: 38, Jalan SS 4c/5, Taman Rasa Sayang, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. +6011-6963 5817
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