Melt in Your Mouth Pineapple Tarts
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Serves: About 60 tarts
 
Ingredients
  • 250g Unsalted Butter (Cubed ande allow it to "thaw" slightly to room temperature); not melted
  • 50g Icing Sugar
  • 2 Egg Yolks
  • 1 Whole Egg (Yolk + White)
  • 350g Top Flour
  • 50g Milk Powder
  • 50g Finely Grated Parmesan Cheese (looks like powder)
  • 500g Pineapple Filling
Egg Wash
  • 2 Egg Yolk
  • 1 Tablespoon Water
Instructions
  1. Sieve the flour, milk powder and cheese powder in a large mixing bowl and set aside
  2. *Preheat oven at 180 degress celsius at least 30 mins before baking; Airfryer @ 160 degree celsius at least 5 mins before baking
Making the Crust
  1. In a large mixing bowl, add in cubed butter, icing sugar and cream at low using a mixer (use paddle attachment if available)
  2. When the icing sugar is combined into the butter, increase to high speed and cream until the butter mixture is light and creamy.
  3. Slowly add in the egg yolks (one at a time) and then lastly the white.
  4. Cream until the eggs are combined into the butter mixture.
  5. Add in sieved flour-milk-cheese mixture in 4 seperate batches, and continue to mix *Do not overmix. just mix until flour is combined into mixture.
Rolling & wrapping the Pineapple Tarts
  1. Roll pineapple filling into balls of 8g each and wrap each pineapple filling with 12g of dough
  2. Roll into a ball and and place onto a baking tray lined with baking paper
  3. *Refer to the post for step-by-step pictorial guide on the wrapping part.
  4. Use the back of a butter knife and carve the "tic-tac-toe" line on the ball of tarts for an "Ong Lai" looking tarts (Optional)
  5. Then brush the tarts with egg wash
  6. Bake in Oven for 15 mins or until golden brown; Bake in Air Fryer for 10 mins or until golden brown
  7. Allow the tarts to cool completely before storing in air tight container
Notes
1. Oil your hands to prevent sticking of the pineapple filling

2. Preheat oven at 180 degress celsius at least 30 mins before baking; Airfryer @ 160 degree celsius at least 5 mins before baking

3. Each Airfryer basket holds 16 tarts
Recipe by eckitchensg at http://eckitchensg.com/2018/01/melt-mouth-pineapple-tarts/