Festive Baking

I'd put off CNY baking till yesterday. All because I spent my evenings watching 'Coffee Prince'. Now that I'd finished watching the whole drama, I started off baking my first batch of pineapple tarts. This was my second attempt. The first was last year (after CNY though). I've never really fancied pineapple tarts. I baked it last year because Adrian loves them. It was quite a lot of work. Grating of pineapples, cooking the jam and making the tart itself. I made the 'closed version' last year. But that took ages. So this year, I tried the open version having bought the tart mould from Singapore. I'm glad they were quicker to make. The only worry I had was the jam drying out in the baking process but that turned out fine. I had made sure not to overcook the pineapple so that helped. I bought 2 big pineapples but look at the small amount of jam I had in the end.

So altogether, I only managed to make 52 pieces. Gave some away to a friend and Adrian and the girls ate quite a few, hence there aren't many left. I went to Sainsbury's to buy another 4 pineapples today since there's a promotion and had made the jam. I've caught the cold bug and don't want to keep late nights, so will make the pastry tomorrow. Hopefully, I can also make some kueh baulus and kueh bangkits too over the next couple of days. Kueh lapis maybe?