Chinese new year desserts

This Singapore pastry chef is known for creating desserts that are too pretty to eat. Ditto her Chinese New Year confections.

Besides the fortune cookies that come with takeout, there are many delicious Chinese treats that will expand your palate. We’ve rounded up 22 Traditional Chinese Desserts, from Red Bean Buns to Bubble Tea, Boba Ice Cream, Moon Cake and more.

The New Year/Spring Festival is the most important holiday in Chinese culture. The most important meal of the year is the New Year’s Eve reunion dinner. This post is dedicated to Chinese New Year’s lucky desserts.

We celebrate the beginning of the year of the Tiger with this dessert inspiration

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

Chinese Almond Cookies are simple, crisp, buttery, and full of almond flavor. Perfect to make for Chinese New Year!

Sure, Chinese New Year Cupcakes are not the traditional dessert to celebrate the Chinese New Year, but the cake that I turned into cupcakes, nian gao, is.

Dragon’s beard candy is a staple of Chinese and Lunar New Year celebrations, but in the U.S. and Canada, a generation of candymakers are determining the best way to pass the difficult art to a new generation.

Fa Gao, or Chinese prosperity cake, is a light and fluffy steamed sweet cake topped with jujubes. Make this celebratory cake for Chinese New Year to bring in good fortune! {Vegetarian}

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