Ramadan is indeed a beautiful month. You have the iftars, the prayers, the endless amount (but sadly, they're getting more expensive now) of bazaar food... Ramadan is more than just controlling your thirst and hunger, the month you try to improve your iman level.
Now that we're left about 10 days of Ramadan, everyone tries to increase their ibadah... waiting for that special night that only Allah SWT knows when. During these last 10 days, many Muslims especially the maks maks... they're busy preparing for Raya.
Right now, I'm pretty busy preparing for Raya. Few days ago, I finally fulfilled the promise I made to my little cousins. We finally baked together after so long.
Making of Cat's Tongue cookies
I'm a fan of plain biscuits. Cat's Tongue cookies or how the maks maks usually call it, Biskut Lidah Kucing... they're my favourite! If you display it in your house during Raya, I'm sorry but I'm capable of finishing the whole jar of cookies.
Cat's Tongue cookies
They turned out pretty nice! My little cousins carefully chose the colours so our cookies looked good. Honestly, I enjoyed every single moment of baking these with my little cousins. Even the cleaning up part.
We baked right after sahur till afternoon, and boy we baked so much... my aunt's maid had to stop us because there's no more space to put the cookies and kuihs.
Making of Pineapple Tarts
Yes, can you believe it? I made such old school kuih. Time to start accepting orders for all these kuih raya 💅🏼
Pineapple Tarts
The struggle to make these kuih raya was real... we kinda failed halfway but we didn't give up. I just love how my cousins try to "save" the kuih and then we got all nervous sitting in front of the oven, waiting for the kuih to bake. And when it comes out from the oven, we wait for the kuih to cool down and then see if it turns out well.
Nowadays, not many people bake their own kuih raya. I haven't done so for years. And when I started baking some few days ago, I feel the raya mood is coming and I'm all excited for raya!
Nowadays, not many people bake their own kuih raya. I haven't done so for years. And when I started baking some few days ago, I feel the raya mood is coming and I'm all excited for raya!
If you feel like you're missing that raya mood, start with baking!
Better if you do it with your loved ones, a good way to spend time together!