bars, biscuits, and cookies

Craving quick cookies, I whipped up these one-bowl wonders that perfectly hit the spot. Inspired by a viral reel from imchaee on TikTok, these cookies are not just easy to whip up, but they're also gluten-free and vegan. I adore their contrasting textures: a crispy exterior complemented by an irresistibly chewy, mochi-like interior. I chose to infuse mine with ube extract, lending them a delightful purple hue. But the beauty of this recipe lies in its versatility — feel free to get creative with mix-ins and various extracts to customize the flavor and color.

They disappeared from my plate so swiftly that I can't give you any storage recommendations just yet. Nonetheless, I urge you to give them a whirl! Make my version of the viral and trending Korean rice cake cookies, or call them mochi cookies!

We've all seen sweet potato brownies take over social media, but what you haven't seen yet is this: a vegan, gluten-free purple sweet potato mochi brownie. Yup, you read that right—this is a brownie that breaks all the rules and yet tastes like a dream.

I literally had a dream about these brownies.

And I made them for Kenji Lopez-Alt in my dream.

LOL. Learn how to make the best gluten-free and vegan mochi brownies using roasted sweet potatoes!

Let’s make a delicious and moist lemon loaf, except with yuzu and miso, to give Starbucks’ famous iced lemon loaf recipe a fun Asian spin! Bake this at home today with Kat Lieu’s amazing “copycat recipe.”

Here’s a simple gluten-free mochi brownies recipe by Kat Lieu, a little spicy and red velvet thanks to beet powder and doubanjiang

Let’s make Chinese peanut cookies for Lunar New Year, and cheat a little by using peanut butter with an amazing and easy recipe by Kat Lieu!

These bright purple cookies come to us from Kat Lieu’s book Modern Asian Baking at Home. The cookies get their distinctive color and aroma from the Filipino purple yam ube (specifically, in the form of ube extract and ube halaya, a sweet jam). The ube gives the cookie dough a fruity, coconutty flavor with notes of vanilla, and the chewy, stretchy mochi centers hiding beneath the surface take these treats to the next level.

This holiday season, or for any occasion, you’ll want to make these delicious matcha spritz cookies. They’re more cakey than crispy and may remind you of the buttery cookies you’d find in Japan, especially since they’re made with matcha and miso. Decorate them as you please, and be sure to share the cookies with friends and loved ones! Note you’ll need a piping bag and a star tip to pipe cookie wreaths. You can, of course, also pipe them out as Christmas trees. This recipe is excerpted from Modern Asian Baking at Home by Kat Lieu

Here’s a fun holiday recipe for you, Subway’s Footlong cookie but make it Asian with Kat Lieu

Confession time! I’ve never been much of a cookie person until I made gigantic monster cookies, like the monster matcha miso cookies in my cookbook, Modern Asian Baking at Home. My verdant and gigantic cookies became an obsession. By substituting matcha powder with hojicha powder, and sprinkling on some sea salt flakes at the end, I’ve created another addictive cookie to obsess over: thiccc and cakey hojicha and miso chocolate chip cookies. I recommend not skipping the miso as it gives the cookies an additional pop of umami. Happy baking!

Let’s make edible matcha cookie dough that’s gluten-free, vegan, and raw with a super easy and quick recipe by Kat Lieu, the newly proclaimed doyenne of Asian-style home baking!

Let’s make vegan matcha miso chocolate cookies with this easy and quick recipe by Kat Lieu.

Let’s make triple chocolate black cocoa cookies for all our family and friends!

Let’s make Holiday Pavé Brownies with a recipe by Kat Lieu

Let’s make decadent mochi brownies that are chewy and gluten-free with a recipe by Subtle Asian Baking member Derrek Tomine!

Let’s make thick red velvet cookies to celebrate any occasion, and not just for the holidays!

Let’s make mini pandan cookies with baker Jade Nhin

Let’s make large brown butter matcha miso cookies for the holidays and impress all our friends and fam!

Imagine a decadent brownie and a marshmallow mochi had a baby. This chocolate brown butter mochi is that baby. Now make it spicy with gochujang and umami-ful with miso. Here’s our gochujang chocolate brown butter mochi recipe.

The Timorese ladder biscuit is a delicious crisp biscuit infused with a nutty, Lum Ying / almond texture and licorice flavor. The ladder biscuit received its name due to the crimp shape, making it seem like a step ladder or a ladder to heaven.