Not Only On Eid, 7 Kinds Of Cookies Are Popular Served To Guests

JAKARTA - The living room table of the house must be full of various dishes when Eid al-Fitr. If there's less one, there's less. Are the pastries below among your favorites?

Nastar

This kind of Lebaran cake contains pineapple jam. It doesn't taste too sweet, except for the pineapple jam.

Pineapple jam is processed from shredded pineapple and cooked with caramel. That is, the sweetness can be arranged according to taste. If you like sweetness, jam can be added sugar. In addition to preservatives, this sugar also enriches the sour taste of pineapple.

Because of the popularity of nastar, there is also a dish of lebaran creations with matcha stuffing. It's purplish green.

Peanut cake

The peanut cake is made mainly from finely ground beans. In addition to peanuts, the main ingredients used are wheat flour, butter, and cooking oil. When baked, the smell of glowing beans fills the room.

Snow White

Snow white sugar-studded whites that have been mashed. At the first bite, the sweetness of the sugar overwhelms but once chewed it will blend with the buttery taste in the cake.

Semprit cake

This semprit cake besides crispy, sweet taste. The main ingredient is wheat flour. There are also variants of matcha, chocolate, and vanilla flavors. Usually, semprit cake is decorated with chococips and cashew nuts.

Garut cake

This cake is made from garut flour so it is called a garut cake. Interestingly, it tastes vaguely sweet and a little sticky in the mouth.

Cat Tongue

This cake looks like a cat's tongue. This cake is a food produced by acculturation that was originally made by the Dutch. This cake has a sweet, savory, and crunchy taste. Popular cat tongue cakes are served on big days such as Eid al-Fitr, Christmas, Chinese New Year.

Kastengel

This cake tastes savory because it uses cheese. In dough, this kind of lebaran cake is similar to nastar. It is said that this pastry comes from the Netherlands. But in the Netherlands the length of this pastry is about 30 centimeters.

Well, this cake was introduced through culinary acculturation by Dutch mistresses in colonial times. Once until Indonesia, this cake is modified. It's only two fingers in size.

In addition to the pastries above, canned pastries are also often a dish. Even used for hamper package during Eid and other big days.