Pineapple Tarts Recipe

Delicious Homemade Pineapple Tarts Singapore Recipe

It has been a very busy 2010! With the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year of the Tiger falling on February 14th this year, same as Valentine's Day, somehow orders for Chinese New Year food such as cakes and cookies came in late.

In the run-up to the Spring Festival, it was non-stop baking all the way. Had lots of fun along the way as well.

Here's a Pineapple Tarts Recipe which I use and a step by step pictorial guide on how to make pineapple tarts:-

Pineapple Tarts Recipe

Ingredients:-

A
114 g plain flour
114 g self raising flour

B
142g butter

C
1 egg
1 tsp cold water

D
egg wash (1 beaten yolk with 2 tsp milk)

E
500g - 750g pineapple jam (can be bought from baking speciality shops such as Phoon Huat and Gim Him Lee which would be slightly cheaper than from supermarkets)


Method:-

Sieve A.
Mix A and B till crumbly.
Tip:- Especially when making large quantities, I use the universal blade of the Braun machine to knead A & B and mix with the egg and water mixture. This is a huge time saver!

A & B placed in the food processor with the universal blade

After a few minutes, mixture is crumbly

You see 2 eggs here as I was doing 2 recipes at one go

Beat the eggs and water

Add in C into A & B crumbly mixture and knead into a dough.

Dough is now ready

Wrap in plastic foil and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Get ready some flour, cookie cutter and rolling pin

Tip: You can roll the dough in between 2 plastic sheets. I use baking paper at the bottom and plastic wrap on top.

Roll dough till approximately 3 - 4 mm thick.

Use cookie cutter to cut into shapes.

Place on greased baking tray (or baking tray lined with baking sheet).

Bake blind in preheated 180 - 190 degrees C oven for 15 minutes.

Egg wash

Remove tray from oven & brush with egg wash.

Roll the pineapple jam into balls and place in the centre on baked dough.

Pineapple jam

Rolled into balls

*Optional:- place design on top of jam

Bake in 180 - 190 degrees C oven again for another 5 minutes.

Remove from oven, place on racks and leave to cool before storing in air-tight container.

Makes approximately 50 little pineapple tarts.

The amount of pineapple jam is up to you. I prefer using more jam so much so that one of my friends calls them "jam-on-tarts". My brother refers to them as "Dolly's Glory".

Happy Baking!

Pineapple Tarts

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Festival Mooncake

Moon Festival - Chinese Mooncake

Festival Mooncake, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival (Chung Chiu) or Lantern Festival or Moon Festival is the third major festival of the Chinese calendar. It is celebrated on the 15^th day of the eighth month and is one of the three most important festivals. The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is one of the most celebrated Chinese holidays where Chinese families celebrate the end of the harvest season with a big feast.

This year, the Chinese mooncake festival falls on October 3^rd, 2009. On this day, the moon is full and round and this is when the Chinese people gather to view the moon. The round shape signifies family reunion. Sons and daughters will bring their family members back to their parents' house for a reunion. Sometimes people who have already settled overseas will come back to visit their parents on that day. Where possible, all the family members will get together.

For the Moon Festival, mooncake foods are prevalent. Mooncakes are a kind of Chinese delicacy which friends and relatives send to each other as a way of giving thanks. A relatively thin crust with heavy and dense filling that is usually made from lotus seed paste, these mooncakes come in various varieties. Some may contain yolks from salted duck eggs, others may boast of nuts, yet others may have ham. The range is endless due to the popularity of mooncakes and the creativity of the manufacturers.

The sinful high cholesterol mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges and accompanies by Chinese tea. Today there are the traditional baked mooncakes, the snowskin mooncakes, the mooncakes with crispy pastry and so on.

Every year, on the mid-autumn festival, children light lanterns and carry them around.

Lanterns

And more lanterns

Here are some pictures of mooncakes and you can see the great varieties as well as each high end establishment coming up with various ways of packing these mooncakes.

Crispy skin mooncake

Durian mooncake

Snowskin mooncakes

More snowskin mooncakes

Red Date Snowskin mooncakes

Check out these packaging



Traditional Baked Mooncakes

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Celebrating 82nd Birthday With A Cruise Ship Cake

Cruise Ship Cake for the 82nd Birthday!



Since mother loves going on board the holiday cruise ship, Star Cruise Virgo, we decided to make a birthday cake in the form of a cruise ship just for her.

Food Galore...


Birthday celebration was held at home as mother just suffered a fall & had to be hospitalized. Reservations at the restaurant had to be cancelled as we were not sure if mother would be discharged in time to celebrate her birthday. Fortunately, God willing, we held her 82nd birthday celebration at home...

Happy 82nd Birthday

Surrounded by immediate family members

including children, grand children & great grand children


Cutting the ship cake! after making her wishes...



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How To Make A Ship Cake

Celebrating Her 82nd Birthday With A Cruise Ship Cake




Cake Ingredients
2 x 300g packets buttercake mix
200g whipped cream
Blue colouring
Pink colouring
Green colouring
100g semi sweet chocolate
100g sour cream
200g whipped cream

Spread mixture into 2 baking pans:-
8” x 8”
7” x 7”

For the 8” cake, cut cake lengthwise into 2 pieces. This will form the base or what we shall call Deck 1.


Ship Cake Deck 1

For the 7” cake, cut into the following sizes:-
7” x 2.5” for Deck 2
4” x 2.5” for Deck 2
1” x 6” for Deck 3



Ship Cake Deck 2



Ship Cake Deck 3


Decorations
1 packet polo mints
1 packet gummy hearts
1 packet gummy fish/sharks
2 chocolate fingers
Blue crystallized sugar
Coloured sprinkles

1 16” square cake board

Assemble cake pieces on the cake board to form your cruise ship. Trim the front of the Deck 1 cruise ship cake at angles to make bow.

Double boil the sour cream and semi sweet chocolate till the chocolate is all melted. Spread around the sides of Deck 1.





Whip the cream till stiff. Spread some over the top of Deck 1.





For Deck 2, arrange the 2 pieces on top of Deck 1 as shown in the picture. Round off the front portion. Set aside some whipped cream and tint it green. Use the green whipped cream to spread on the sides of Deck 2.

Spread some white whipped cream over the top of Deck 2.

For Deck 3, arrange it over Deck 2. Round off the front portion. Set aside some whipped cream and tint it pink. Use the pink whipped cream to spread on the sides of Deck 3.

Spread some white whipped cream over the top of Deck 3.





The fun is in the decorating. Use your imagination and creativity to come up with your creation. Here, I have used some polo mints and heart shaped gummies for the portholes. Chocolate fingers are used for the top of the ship cake as the exhaust.



Colour some of the whipped cream blue and spread on the cake board to resemble the sea. I have added in some gummy sharks in the water and some crystallized blue sugar to create the glint in the water.






On Deck 2, you can also add some crystallized blue sugar for the swimming pool. On Deck 3, I have added some coloured sprinkles for the walkway.




There are a variety of ship cakes that can be easily made such as a pirate ship, a rocket ship cake and of course the cruise ship cake.



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