Pineapple Tart

Never thought there is time for me to bake pineapple tarts this year, one of the most popular CNY goodies in Singapore.  My hands are "itchy" when I  see loads of pineapples being stocked up in supermarkets, despite the fact that I'm busy packing my family luggage to prepare our trip to HK to visit my parents  this coming Sat til early Feb.

 

As I never made pineapple tarts before, for a start and given the time constraint, I only bought 1pc honey pineapple to try it out.  Wasting time you may think!!

 

I asked my helper to grate the pineapple and slow cooked it with some cinnamon and brown sugar in my microwave oven.  I wouldn't even try this recipe if you ask me to stand in front of a cooking stove and keep stirring it ..... My ex-colleague is brilliant.  She told me she used to make her own pineapple tarts’ filling using microwave oven.  

 

I didn’t really measure/weight the ingredient so not sure if I could achieve the same results the next time.  Over the process, I only burnt some of the pineapple paste at the outer layer and managed to cook it dry without much stirring.  I think it took me about 20 mins using 700W to make 15 pcs pineapple tart filling weight 6gm each.

 

The crust is good as it simply melts in the mouth.   The recipe is from one of the Y3K CNY cookbooks.  My hubby usually don't like this kind of stuff but he ate a couple of them.  The filling is a little too sour to him but it is fine with me as I like it sour.

 

May be I can put this up for sales next year!  ;)