Ramadan Recipes: Make Your Favourite Kuih Raya At Home

Lifestyle

April 26, 2022

With Ramadan lurking around the corner, most of us are definitely in need of Ramadan recipes that can be easily whipped up for gatherings and celebrations.

Ramadan is great for many reasons—it’s a celebration with your friends, families and loved ones. All are blessed with so much joy, bliss, and of course, the amazing spreads of food.

If you’re hosting an open house, serve your guests freshly baked sweets and treats before indulging in the delicacies of rendang, satay, serunding, and more. Here are three Ramadan recipes for you to try this year!

Honey Cornflakes

A must-have at all gatherings and open houses, honey cornflakes is a classic Ramadan recipe. They’re the cutest bite-sized treats that you can just pop in your mouth while chatting away with your relatives. Crispy and sweet, you can never have too many of these.

Ingredients:

60g of butter
85g of honey
1 ½ tbsp of castor sugar
125g of cornflakes
Mini paper cups

Instructions:

In a pot over low heat, mix butter, honey, and sugar until well combined.
In a bowl, crush the cornflakes into smaller pieces.
Pour the glaze mixture into the bowl and mix until the cornflakes are evenly coated.
Scoop them into the mini cups until finished.
Pop them in the oven for 15 minutes at 150°C.
Once the timer is up, remove them from the oven and allow them to cool. Transfer to an airtight container to store and serve.

If you’d like to give this Ramadan recipe a festive feel, just garnish the top of the honey cornflakes with rainbow sprinkles, and ta-da!

Biskut Semperit Susu

Yet another popular Ramadan Recipe, the biskut semperit susu. Easy to make with only five ingredients, these cookies are perfectly crumbly and will just melt in your mouth. These are highly addictive, so be sure to not finish them before serving to your guests!

Ingredients:

250g of butter, room temperature
230g of condensed milk
400g of cornflour
2 tbsp of castor flour
Cherries (for garnishing)

Instructions:

Combine butter and condensed milk in a bowl.
Add cornflour and castor flour, mixing the ingredients until they’re well incorporated and form a dough.
Using your hands, knead the dough until smooth. The dough should not stick to your hands.
Separate the dough into sections and insert it into the mould, pressing the dough into shape.
Arrange the cookies neatly onto a greased baking sheet and garnish with either cherries or chocolate chips, depending on your preference.
Set aside to rest for 30 minutes.
Pop it into the oven to bake at 160°C for 25 minutes.
After 25 minutes, remove from oven to cool, and transfer to an airtight container for storage and to serve.

Instead of cherries, you can also opt to place chocolate chips over the top for this Ramadan recipe.

Makmur Cookies

These little nutty delicacies are a popular Ramadan recipe. Filled with crushed toasted peanuts on the inside and dusted with icing sugar on the outside, Makmur cookies are fun to eat and easy to make.

Ingredients:

500g of all-purpose flour
200g of ghee
100g of roasted peanuts, crushed
50g of castor sugar
Icing sugar (for garnish)

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 190°C.
In a bowl, add flour and ghee, mixing until it reaches a crumbly consistency.
Scoop up a marble-sized dough, making a dent in the middle for 1 teaspoon worth of crushed peanuts.
Wrap the dough, enclosing the filling.
Squeeze and shape it tightly.
Pop in the oven to bake for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, transfer to a wire rack to cool and dust with icing sugar.
Transfer to an airtight container for storage and to serve!

If you’ve got more time on your hands for this Ramadan recipe, you can actually shape it into more beautiful designs to impress your guests.

Sweets and treats for all

These Ramadan recipes taste delicious and are fairly easy to make. All you’ll need is a few basic ingredients from your pantry, an oven, and an extra pair of hands to make batches of kuih raya quickly!