Homemade Pineapple Tarts Recipe – 2021 Update

Since commencement posting my cute pineapple tarts recipe inward 2016, the only matter I've changed is to add together a footling salt to the shortbread dough. Other than that, it remains a constant inwards my Chinese New Year snack repertoire.

I absolutely beloved these buttery, melt-inward-the-oral fissure biscuits. But they have patience to make, peculiarly the jam, which needs a few hours to reduce downwardly, cool together with curlicue. But they're so worth it.

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Makes 20–28 depending on how thinly or thickly yous curl the pastry dough.

Ingredients

For the Jam:

two medium-sized pineapples, peeled, cored as well as puréed
200g caster sugar
one cinnamon stick
one pandan leafage

For the Royal Icing Leaves:

i small-scale egg white
150g icing sugar
A few drops of pandan paste (you lot can just use green nutrient coloring paste)

For the Pastry:

125g common cold unsalted butter, cubed
175g patently flour
Pinch of table salt
two tbsp cornflour
two tbsp custard powder
25g icing carbohydrate
1 egg, beaten (to glaze)

Method:

i. In a big pan or wok, simmer all the ingredients together on a depression rut. When it reduces by half, take the cinnamon stick in addition to pandan foliage, and stir oft with a silicone spatula or wooden spoon to end it from sticking. Stir until yous take a actually thick, relatively dry paste – this volition take a dyad of hours.

two. Scoop into a shallow dish together with let cool completely before popping inwards the fridge for an hour (I left the jam to cool on the kitchen counter overnight every bit it was quite a chilly mean solar day anyway).

three. To make the royal icing leaves, whisk the ingredients together until strong too fluffy, together with piping trivial leaves on a baking paper-lined tray. Leave to dry overnight.

iv. Take teaspoon-sized portions of your jam and whorl them into balls using oiled hands.

five. Preheat the oven to 180°C too line of work a distich of baking sheets amongst not stick baking parchment.

six. Make the pastry by rubbing all the ingredients (apart from the egg) together amongst your fingertips, switching to a calorie-free kneading motility to make the dough come up together.

seven. Roll the dough out until it's virtually 1cm thick, together with cutting out your pastry shapes. Place them about 2cm apart on the lined baking tray together with pop a pineapple jam ball inward the center. If your kitchen's a flake warm and the pastry becomes soft as yous function alongside it, popular it inwards the freezer for v minutes to business firm dorsum up once again too re-whorl.

eight. Brush beaten egg lightly over the tops together with bake for x–xv minutes, until gold brown. Then cool completely on a wire rack earlier sticking the leaves into the jam as well as and so eating.