Chinese New Year I made these lovely cookies filled with pineapple jam. I used my mooncake pressed mold . My mold have not used for the longest time and it is time to take out and make to good use and this is the result. I wanted to make like the Taiwan pineapple tarts. When i saw Taiwan pineapple tarts, I remember my mooncake mold that have been kept sitting in the kitchen cabinet unused . I decided to make my pineaplle tarts using my mooncake mold which is square shape and my pineapple tarts came out lovely and easy to hold and bite this way. My sister said this tarts looks good and pretty and cute.
In fact, I started making like this last year and this year again. Thanks to my own idea cos now my mold is not wasted away. I almost wanted to thow it away to save space in my cabinet when I thought that it is useless because I have a few more of mooncakes mold which is bigger and round. Someone said to me that mooncake need to be round and not square and I agreed. Now I'll be using this square mold to make my enclosed Pineapple tarts.
INGREDIENTS:
226 grams butter
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 egg yolk
21/2 cups flour(330g)
2 tbsp milk powder
2 tbsp corn flour
21/2 tsp custard powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
Method:
Beat butter with sugar until fluffy. Then add in egg yolk. Mix the flour, corn flour, custard flour, milk powder, and salt together. Then add to the butter mixture. Add in the vanilla essence and beat again evenly. Make it into a dough. Take some dough and flatten, then fill with pineapple jam, seal, and shape/press with a cutter. Bake in a preheated oven, at 180°C until cooked.
