Biskut Nestum ... ;-)

4th Raya. With nothing much to do and not expecting any more guests, I was looking up old recipes and found this from the collection of Kak Ti's recipe. Remember the original chocolate moist cake? This recipe must be almost 20 years old. She sent it to me when I first wanted to bake for my sons along with the all time favourite Chocolate Nut Chip cookies which an old friend got to taste. As Akmal once said - once bitten, forever hooked. The boys will always insist on this chocolate nut chip cookie to take back with them to their college or school. So, this time I wanted to try this old recipe and since it also has nuts in them, I am sure they will like it. Ikram got the first freshly baked batch and declared it with a thumbs up. One batch made 100 pieces of cookies. He said he could finish this in one seating so he asked to make another double batches. Hmmm....the cookie is not crunchy as the chocolate nut chip. Maybe it is the nestum that makes it soft. Crunchy on the sides and slightly softer on the inside. You can taste the nestum and nuts. Reminds one of baby food ... ;-}

Freshly baked nestum cookies - hot from the oven

Nicely packed and sealed - gift for friends ... ;-) something nice is double nicer when shared

The recipe is as follows - very simple but as usual it is manually made and although one can use a cookie cutter I prefer to shape it manually so that each piece is done with a lot of total loving care (TLC). :-) 

3/4 cawan tepung gandum
1/2 cawan tepung jagung
1/4 camca teh baking powder (ayak ketiga-tiga bahan ini)
1/2 cawan margarine or butter
6 camca besar gula halus
1 cawan nestum (original/plain)
1/2 cawan dessicated coconut (kelapa kering)
1/4 cawan kacang tanah (goreng dan tumbuk kasar)
1/4 camca teh garam halus
1 biji telur
1 camca teh vanilla essence

Cara membuatnya :- Ramas gaul margarine dan tepung hingga rata. Masukkan semua bahan dan gaul rata. Akhir sekali masukkan telur dan jadikan dough. Canaikan dan terap dengan bentuk cookie yang disukai. Bakar selama 10 - 15 minit bergantung kepada ketebalan cookie.

Tomorrow I will make their favourite chocolate nut chip cookies. Hopefully we can deliver them to Akmal in Langkawi. Maybe I will go and pay him a Raya visit.  ... well, there is an old saying - "if the mountain will not come to Mohamed, then Mohamed will come to the mountain" ... :-)