Pineapple Tart

This post is linked at Cook and Celebrate: Chinese New Year 2016 hosted by Yen from GoodyFoodies, Diana from The Domestic Goddess Wannabe and Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids at here.

Recipe

Ingredients
Pastry:
250g salted butter
50g icing sugar
2 egg yolk
1tbsp egg white
360g plain flour
25g milk powder
2tsp custard powder

Filling:
about 500g pineapple filling

Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Sift flour, milk powder and custard powder together and set aside.
3. Cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Add in egg yolk and white, mix till combined.
5. Fold in flour mixture and mix till it form soft dough.
6. Cover and rest dough in fridge for 15mins.
7. Scale pineapple filling at 5g each and roll into balls.
8. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface about 0.4cm thick.
9. Dust tart cutter with some flour and cut out tart dough.
10.Arrange tart dough on a greased tray.
11.Arrange pineapple ball on tart dough.
12.Place some dough into piping bag fitted with nozzle.
13.Pipe small flower on tabletop, with a palette knife slowly scoop up flower and place it on tart.
14.Bake in a preheated oven for 12-14mins until slightly brown.
15.Remove pineapple tarts and cool on a wire rack.
16.Store in an airtight container.

Golden Coins Mini Buns

This is the first time I'm doing hand knead buns and I'm very happy with the outcome result. This is a small amount recipe so it easier to do it by hand and achieve elastic dough in shorter time. The texture of the buns is very soft. This recipe confirm is a keeper for me. Thumbs up.;p

This post is linked at Cook and Celebrate: Chinese New Year 2016 hosted by Yen from GoodyFoodies, Diana from The Domestic Goddess Wannabe and Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids at here.

Recipe source from Daisy's homemade: 金钱小面包 Money Small Bread.

Recipe

Ingredients
150g bread flour
2tsp milk powder
1/2tsp instant yeast
25g sugar
1/4tsp salt
75g warm milk
1 egg yolk
3g butter

Steps:
1. Dissolve yeast in 1tbsp of warm milk and set aside.
2. In a big mixing bowl mix flour, milk powder, sugar and salt together.
3. Add balance milk, egg yolk and dissolved yeast into mixing bowl.
4. With a spatula, mix ingredients together till it form a dough. (Add 1tsp of milk if dough is too dry which can't bind together.)
5. Lastly, add in butter and hand knead butter into dough.
6. Place dough on a lightly floured table top and hand knead till it achieve a smooth and elastic dough. (Refer here for hand knead dough.)
7. Put dough in a greased bowl, cover and let it proof for an hour.
8. Knock down proof dough, hand knead on a lightly floured surface for a while.
9. Divide dough into equal portions about 10g each, cover and rest for another 10mins.
10.Shape each dough into round ball and arrange them in a greased 8inches round pan.
11.Cover and leave it proof for an hour until it doubled in size.
12.Preheat oven to 180C.
13.Bake in a preheated oven for 12mins until buns surface is browned.
14.Remove buns from pan, brush surface with butter and cool it on a wire rack.