Pineapple Tarts

I have spent my last weekend before cny, making pineapple tarts (my 4th cny item) and more kueh lapis for my family =D

Here's the recipe that i have adapted from florence's blog ;

Ingredients: (85 pieces)
Pastry
Plain Flour 340g
2 tbsp Icing sugar
1/2 tsp salt
Cold butter 200g
1 Egg yolk
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
5 tsp ice cold water
1/2 tsp baking powder
1kg of pineapple paste (red man)

Egg glaze: Lightly beat 1 yolk with 1 tsp water

Method:
1. Lightly beat egg yolk with vanilla essence.
2. Sieve flour, baking powder and icing sugar into mixing bowl. Stir in salt and blend well.
3. Put all butter into flour mixture and cut up butter into small pieces with a knife in the flour.
4. Use rubbing-in method to rub in butter into the flour until it is bread crumbs like.
5. Add egg yolk and ice water into flour and use a spatula to blend well to form a dough.
6. Put dough into freezer bag and refrigerate for 1 hour. (Not in the ice-box)
7. Roll pineapple paste into small balls and refrigerate for 1 hour as well
8. Remove dough & pineapple paste from fridge and roll dough into equal sizes and stuff it with pineapple paste.
9. Egg wash and bake at 200C for 20mins or until the golden brown.



As i have used up 2kg of my pineapple paste, i used the remaining dough and made it into a 15cm tall gingerbreadman for my colleague adeline.. who craze abt it all the time.. haha =D

Here's some photos of my 2nd attempt of kueh lapis;