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    Home » Festive Asian Recipes

    Published: Feb 8, 2022 · Modified: Mar 25, 2022 by Zen

    6 Galentines Day Cookies (Asian Recipes)

    No date on Valentine's Day? Gather a group of your best girlfriends and have a girlie night in with these delicious Galentines Day Cookies! If you already have plans, you can still make these for your besties!

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    • For friends who love nuts
    • Fruity
    • Matcha
    • For those who don't have an oven
    • Movie recommendations

    There's something ever so comforting about cookies and they make a great gift, whether it be for Valentines or Galentines Day!

    Note: most of these recipes require baking in the oven (well except for the jelly recipes at the end). After so much baking- I just delivered an order of 10 jars of peanut cookies- I realise that the placement of the oven at counter-height is so important for preventing backache! To see what else I learnt after designing a kitchen from scratch, click here.


    Tip: you can also try substituting half of the butter in these recipes with bacon fat, to give your bakes even deeper flavour.

    For friends who love nuts

    Cantonese walnut cookies for Chinese New Year with red packets
    Easy Traditional Chinese Walnut Cookies(Hup Toh Soh) Recipe
    Also known as He Tao Su, these classic vegetarian cookies are easy to make at home, using store cupboard ingredients, and can be made vegan as well (info below). Crispy, crumbly and fragrant, they go well with coffee or milk tea!
    Check out this recipe
    Chinese Walnut Cookies with Chinese New Year red packets
    Chinese Peanut cookies
    If your friend likes peanut cookies, she'll love these traditional chinese ones- they're so good someone once ordered 22 jars of them in a go! The recipe was developed after baking over 2000 cookies, as can be seen from the different versions shown in the photo!
    Check out this recipe
    12 types of Chinese peanut cookies made from 12 different recipes on a plate
    A plate of Chinese almond cookies
    Chinese almond cookies
    Traditionally, these were made with lard, but the recipe helpfully allows for shortening as well since not many people keep lard in their kitchens today. If you don't have the brown sugar the recipe calls for, you can make it using white sugar and 1 other ingredient. (Click for link to recipe)
    Check out this recipe
    A plate of Chinese almond cookies

    In case you've not guessed, I'm a huge fan of nuts, which is why I have this sweet and savoury nut recipes round-up on my blog!

    Fruity

    Colourful, fun karachi cookies
    These 5-starred cookies are colourful, fun and rose-scented. Perfect for a fun night in with the girls!
    Check out this recipe
    A plate of tutti frutti karachi cookies

    Matcha

    Several green matcha cookies spread on a table
    Matcha and white chocolate cookies
    Matcha provides a pleasing bitterness to complement white chocolate, which can sometimes be too sweet.
    Check out this recipe
    Several green matcha cookies spread on a table
    2 types of cookies on a cooling tray
    2 paleo cookies: matcha and pine nut
    If your good friends have allergies or dietary restrictions, here are 2 paleo cookie recipes for you! Matcha cookies, and pine nut cookies.
    Check out this recipe
    2 types of cookies on a cooling tray

    If you're a green tea fan, here are some 14 more matcha recipes that may interest you!

    For those who don't have an oven

    I don't have any no-bake Galentines Day cookie recipes for you (yet), but you could always make these jellies?

    • yuzu jelly (1 of the most popular recipes on my blog!)
    • champagne jellies with lychee
    • osmanthus jelly
    • sour plum jelly
    • no-sugar agar agar (for friends on a diet!)
    • no sugar fruit & jelly salad

    The jellies are vegan too!

    Movie recommendations

    Galentines Day Girls night = cookies + gossip + movies! Since I've provided the cookie recipes, I should also mention some films. Some of my favourite movies about female friendships include:

    • Beaches - old but gold
    • Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
    • Wild Child
    • The sisterhood of the travelling pants
    • Sex and the City (the original series not the movies!)

    Which of these Galentines Day cookies (or films) was your favourite? Tag me on social media (@greedygirlgourmet) if you make any of these!

    Other Galentines' Day desserts include:

    • Champagne lychee konnyaku jellies recipe (naturally vegan) (GF)
    • Easy Thick Salted Gula Melaka Coconut Caramel Sauce
    • Singapore kueh dadar pandan coconut pancake recipe (Vegan)
    • Yuzu konnyaku jelly recipe (15 minutes)
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