Kuih Raya Bloopers

As planned, I worked on our raya cookies project with my mum earlier today. As it was my first time and my mum couldn't seem to find her old kitab recipe, I had to make do with the recipes I got from a magazine. I learned a very valuable lesson today, never trust any recipes in magazines or cook books, they usually won't turn out as good unless if you know how to modify the ingredients to get the best outcome.

Okie so I hafta admit, good recipes or not, my first attempt spelled disaster with a capital D! The first batch was not well done, the second one burnt to the highest degree and the third and so on, erkkk...I lost track on what happened to them. Though it's edible after countless of trial and error, but it's nothing to be bragged about. The cocoa walnut cookies I made were too hitam cocoa-ish in taste and hard, while the sugi cookies were too sweet and they seemed to be blown into triple the original size once baked. Nope I didn't use baking powder on them I swear! Something must've went wrong with the dough, beats me what. Oh, they seemed to melt too while baked and hence, the distorted shape. Feeling tired and frustrated, I got into this laughing frenzy when I took one look at my son's face full of flour, turning the house upside down with all the utensils thrown all over the place and evidence of flour and dough splattered all over my mum's carpet! Oh what an excitement he must've felt being involved in such an adventorous trip to the cookie land.

After it was all over and I surrendered for the day, I lied back and told my hubby in a defeated tone "I don't want to make kuih raya anymore lah, I wanna sell all those bahan mentah and whatnots on the net, perhaps I'll give some discounts for the purchasers" and right at that moment my mother who was praying burst out laughing! She apparently, was waiting for that sentence to come out of my mouth. Haha..and then both of us couldn't stop laughing about it until my stomach was all cramped from too much laughter.

Though I was tired and worn out from all the slavery, I did enjoy myself. It's been too long since I had a little fun doing something with my mum like the way I was forced we used to do when I was still single. Oh I do miss my singleton moments terribly now that I think of it. All the fun and freedom with no responsibility weighing on your shoulder. Sigh... All old times are good times, no?

Anyway, next week we shall try again but this time, I need to get a proper recipe before I embark on the journey to the cookie land again. I'm thinking of the delicious mazola cookies and almond london. Does anyone care to share their kickass recipe with me, pwetty please???