Kueh Bangket

Sago (or Tapioca) Flour Cookies

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    50 to 60

    Biscuits
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Growing Up In A Nonya Kitchen

By Sharon Wee

Published 2012

  • About

These dainty, flower-shaped biscuits melt in your mouth. Kueh bangket, like kueh koya, kueh belanda and kueh bolu, are very traditional Nonya biscuits served during Chinese New Year. Like kueh belanda, which literally translates to ‘Holland cake’, kueh bangket has some relation to the Dutch. The word ‘bangket’ is close to the Dutch word for biscuit—‘banket’. The test for quality lies in how firm and pretty i