Pineapple Cookies (Nanas Tart)
One of our family’s favorite cookies. Found in Asian families during special days such as Christmas, Chinese New Year, Ramadhan; these are time-consuming to make but worth the effort. Though I was going to just post the picture, as per request of my friend Dwiana, I posted the recipe as well.
Pineapple Cookies (aka Nanas Tart)
adapted from a recipe by Fatmah Bahalwan
250 gr margarine
250 gr butter
100 gr confectioners’ sugar
4 egg yolks
700 gr all-purpose flour
4 Tablespoons dry milk powder
Glaze:
3 egg yolks, stir lightly
1 teaspoon cookie glaze—optional
Preheat the oven to 3oo°F. Lightly butter several baking sheets. Mix together flour and dry milk powder.
Mix margarine and butter with confectioners’ sugar and eggs until just combined. Gradually beat in the flour mixture, using low speed, until well combined (You could test the dough by roll it into a ball. If you’re able to do it, stop mixing) If you want, leave the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
Roll dough into 1-inch ball, flatten it, fill it pineapple jam and enclose it back into a ball. Place in greased baking sheets about 1 inch between the cookies. Do the same until all the dough is used.
Bake in the oven about 30 minutes, brush the cookies with glaze, bake about 8-10 minutes more or until the cookies look shiny and dry. Remove cookies from baking sheets and cool on wire racks. Store in airtight containers.
Pineapple Jam
4 pineapples, grated finely, do not drain the liquid
200 gr granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cinnamon stick
Dash of cloves—optional
Cook the pineapples with the liquid, salt, cinnamon stick and cloves if using, until the liquid has mostly evaporated. Add the sugar and turn down the heat to low, cook some more until it has no more liquid and is quite sticky. Let it cool before using.
Note: my mom’s variation is to replace 100 gr of all-purpose flour with the same amount of grated Edam/Gouda cheese and also to replace 4 egg yolks with 3 egg yolks + 1 whole egg. The cookies will have less finer texture but richer taste.
Thank you
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semoga sukses!
Comment by dwiana — December 2, 2007 @ 12:28 pm
I don’t mind eating all the CNY goodies now!
i know huh…CNY is coming fast!
Comment by tigerfish — December 2, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
Ini kue fav kita juga, Liz…Tapi kudu cari waktu nih….
Trish
Comment by Trish — December 4, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
Your cookies definitely can win a gold metal! Love both your and your mom versions!
thanks! i need to make more since they’re gone already.
Comment by gattina — December 7, 2007 @ 10:43 pm
i loveee this pineapple tarts! Sigh.. CNY is approaching fast too!
yeah…i know, the more reason to bake more cookies!
Comment by daphne — December 12, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
May I know your Pineapple roll the cookies soft a not , because i always make also too hard ….Thx for you and help you reply shortly
Thxxxx
hi Alice…thanks for stopping by. yes, this recipe makes tender and crumbly cookies. as long as you don’t handle/mix the dough too long the result would be fantastic. good luck!
Comment by Alice Chong — January 19, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
My girlfriend from Singapore makes similar pineapple tart, where you can’t see the pineapple filling until you bit into one.
it’s hard to make this small sized cookies, i still need to practice a lot!
Comment by lee ping — April 30, 2008 @ 8:19 am
hi, i am a pineapple tart recipe craze but still want to find my ‘perfect’ recipe type where i can ‘pincher’ the pastry sides. Because i remember 40 yrs ago my malay neighbours did very good pineapple n makmur tarts. I would say these days i too quite like a little cruncher type instead of total melt-in-mouth. Will experiment yrs and try the close-up types which i’ve not done so. Here in Spore the Bengawan Solo kueh kuehs has come up with the close type and is not bad. Still i like to try on hands.
Thanks for sharing. Cheers:)
no problem…i go back and forth between making them crunchy and melt-in-the mouth
Comment by kk — February 7, 2009 @ 9:57 am
Thanks for posting this recipe. I cannot wait to try it!
you’re welcome Winnie
Comment by winnie — May 7, 2009 @ 11:03 pm