Pineapple Shaped Tarts
By: Anncoo
Published: Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 6:41am

Ingredients




250g Cold butter
1 Egg
75g Custard powder
140g Icing sugar
440g Plain flour
1 tsp Honey
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1/8 tsp Egg yellow colour

Preparation

1 In a mixing bowl put cold butter (cut cubes), honey, vanilla extract, egg yellow colouring, egg and icing sugar together and mix roughly till mixtures crumbly (30 seconds). Then add in the plain flour and custard powder and mix the mixtures for another 30 seconds. 2 Place mixtures on to dusted flour table and knead to a smooth dough. 3 Divide dough into small portions (about 10g each) and wrap with pineapple jam. 4 Roll the tart into an oval shape and use a small scissors to snip the surface to form a spiky look. Then insert a clove at the top. 5 Bake at 180C for about 12 mins.

About

Chinese New Year is just around the corner and we're ushering in the year of the Dragon. As always I've been very busy in the kitchen baking. Pineapple Tarts are my family and friends favourite. I've been repeatedly using the same recipe every year and this year I've made them into cute little shapes of pineapple. Place the Pineapple Shaped Tarts into a pretty box and your friends will be very happy to receive this 'ong lai' 旺来which translated literally in Fujian means 'prosperity has come' and also believe that this will bring them good luck after eating them.