Lunar new year desserts

Celebrate the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) with these traditional recipes for Chinese New Year cookies and candy!

Black Sesame Shortbread Cookies

These Lunar New Year cookies are crisp, melt-in-your-mouth butter cookies piped into festive dragon shapes.

This collection of great Chinese Dessert will satisfy your sweet tooth with some great flavors from the East!

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Welcome the Chinese New Year with 10 delectable desserts, blending tradition and flavor for a sweet celebration.

Whether you're trying to tackle a culinary project or are looking to order in, these dishes are the most delicious way to celebrate Lunar New Year.

Snappy and crumbly, these not-too-sweet cookies are the sort of treats that make you take a deep breath and slow down. Immediately loveable and layered with complex nutty, toasty and savory notes from black sesame, they’re great with tea. The slice-and-bake dough comes together entirely in a food processor (only one bowl to wash!) and can be refrigerated as a wrapped log for a few days before baking.

Kristina Cho, recipe developer, food stylist, photographer and cookbook author, shares her step-by-step recipe for prosperity cakes, the auspicious festive confection for Chinese New Year.

1. Eight Treasure Rice Pudding This eight treasure rice pudding dessert traditionally features eight different fruits decoratively set atop a mold of rice pudding that has a center of red bean paste. 2. Sweet Red Bean Soup Made with red adzuki (azuki) beans, this popular sweet red bean soup is perfect for Chinese New Year. […]