Recipe: Golf Pineapple Tarts

Recipe: Golf Pineapple Tarts

Chinese New Year is around the corner again, so it's time to bake pineapple tarts! :D 

My future mum-in-law had prepared all the ingredients necessary to make the pineapple tarts and the ones we were baking were the golf pineapple tarts. The golf pineapple tarts were much more easier to make compared to the opened ones as the latter involved rub-in method for the dough and chilling of the dough in fridge.

Let's the fun begins!

Baking of the tarts got everyone in the house in a family bonding mode as all of us were involved in the baking one way or another.

The glazed pineapple tarts

Adding some decorations to the pineapple tarts to make it look like mandarin oranges

We baked 4 bottles of pineapple tarts (around 100-120 pineapple tarts) the whole afternoon! :D

One bottle of pineapple tarts cost around $18-$23 during the Chinese New Year season. So why spend the money to buy when you can make them yourselves and enjoy the process?

Recipe:

          
Ingredients (makes about 100-120 golf ball size pineapple balls):
350g flour, sifted
50g milk powder, sifted
350g soft butter, cut into small cubes
50g sugar
2 eggs
Pineapple Paste, rolled into small balls
1-2 teaspoons of vanilla essence
Yellow food colouring
1 egg yolk (for glazing)

1. Cream butter, sugar using a mixer (medium speed) until well combined. Add in eggs, and mix until combined before adding in the flour and milk powder and 1-2 drops of yellow food colouring. Continue to mix well and the dough will be ready.

2. Knead the dough into a ball and wrap in pineapple paste. Place the pineapple tarts in tray greased with butter to prevent the tarts from sticking and brush some egg yolk on top of the pineapple tarts.  

3. Preheat oven for 180 degree celsius and bake for around 17 minutes.

4. Cool the pineapple tarts before you keep them in the containers.

Optional: You may add some garnishes to decorate the pineapple tarts if you want.

Enjoy baking!