The mold has two plates that are clasped tightly together and attached to long handles for manipulating over a charcoal stove.

The molds may be flat, corrugated, or etched with animal motifs such as fish, roosters, and snails that are both auspicious and decorative.

[4] Traditional kue semprong are hollow; newer variants, however, may contain fillings such as chocolate or cheese.

Many biscuit and cake techniques were passed to Malays by the Dutch, English, and Portuguese.

These biscuits may have been brought to parts of Malaysia and Singapore from Penang and Malacca by the Peranakan Chinese, who, not knowing the name of the Dutch snack they had encountered, simply called it kuih Belanda or kuih kapit.