Bangkit Cookies / Kuih Bangkit

Ingredients:
2 ½ cups Tapioca flour / Starch

1 tbsp butter ~ melted

1 large egg (yolk)

1 cup icing sugar

120ml thick coconut milk / cream

Directions:

1. Place tapioca flour on a paper towel of microwave container & heat for 1 minute.  Set aside & let it cool.  (You also can fry the flour in a wok if don’t have a microwave oven).  Microwave extra tapioca flour for standby & knead purposes.
2. Shift tapioca flour & icing sugar in a big bowl.   Add melted butter, yolk & coconut cream.  Knead until the dough is pliable.  (If the dough is wet or soft, add 1 tbsp of tapioca flour at a time until it becomes harder dough.  Likewise, if it’s too dry, add 1 tbsp of coconut cream)
3. Lightly floured the surface & roll out the dough about 3mm thickness.  Cut into shapes with a cookie cutter.   Arrange on lined baking tray & bake at 180 deg C for 15 minutes or more.  It will puff when baked.

Tips

1. Just make sure the dough is not too wet, if not it can't hold the shape. How to know is when you rolled it out and cut it with a cookie cutter and placed it on the baking tray, the shape disappeared before your eyes. If this happen, add a little more tapioca flour and knead it again. (Microwave extra tapioca flour for backup and kneading purposes) But if the shape hold, you are fine to go.
2. Also, give your kuih bangkit a taste test after 15 minutes and cool off a bit, if it still tasted like not fully dried out in the middle, put it back in the oven and bake it some more until it's completely dried, crispy and melt-in-your-mouth (can be as long as 30 mins). Baking time depended on the thickness of the kuih bangkit, so don't follow blindly by the stated time. For example, after 15 mins, you taste and middle not dry out yet, pop it back for another 5 mins, take it out and do a test taste after it's cool a bit, if still not, in the oven it goes for another 5 mins, until when you tasted the kuih bangkit, it's completely dried in the middle, whole thing crispy and melt-in-your-mouth. I have baked my thicker one for as long as 30 mins before and no harm done.