Melt In Your Mouth Pineapple Tarts | Nastar | 黄梨挞 | Pineapple Tart Balls | Chinese New Year Cookies

Happy 2021 everyone!

I hope that all of you had manage to rest up over the holiday period and are taking care of yourselves :)

This is my first recipe of the year and is also one of my favourite Chinese New Year festive cookies - Pineapple Tarts / Pineapple Balls / Nastar or whatever you would love to call it.

Sweet, sour, savoury, buttery and a one bite snack.

As usual, there are plenty of notes and tips in my blog post so do check it out for more details (link below) :)

Please stay safe and take care of yourselves!

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Ingredients List:

Pineapple Jam
Makes 22-25 x 8g fillings

400g pineapple, fresh or tinned pineapple in pineapple juice
50g white sugar
20g maltose
8 cloves
2 star anise segments
4 green cardamom pods, cracked
4 black peppercorns
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1/8 tsp salt
20g unsalted butter
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Tart Dough
Makes 45 x 10g portions of dough (half the quantity if making only 1 batch of pineapple filling)

130g golden churn tinned butter (salted), softened
50g cream cheese, softened
40g icing sugar, sifted
Scant 1/2 tsp fine sea salt (1/4 tsp for a less savoury pastry)
2 large egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla extract
30g milk powder
10g custard powder
36g corn starch
130g cake flour

Egg Wash
1 egg yolk
2 tsp water
1/4 tsp melted butter
pinch of salt

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