Pineapple Tarts

Pineapple tarts are my eldest daughter favourite tart,  I always bake this for her....It was about 20 years ago, the price for pineapple in Korea was very expensive as it was imported fruit. Now, we can buy the pineapple at a low price and it is cultivated in Jeju Island too ...

Ingredients:

Filling:
pineapples 5
sugar 450g
cinnamon powder 1/4 tsp

Pastry:
plain flour 450g
milk powder 20g
butter 250g
sugar 120g
egg 1

Method:

Filling:
1. Peel the skin of the pineapples and finely chop pineapples in food processor. Transfer to pot and cook with low heat, have to stir it constantly, until almost all liquid has evaporated. Add in sugar and cinnamon powder and keep on cooking until filling is thick and sticky. During the cooking process, stirring constantly.

Pastry:
1. Sift plain flour and milk powder together.

2. Put sugar, butter and egg in mixer and beat until sugar is  dissolved. Add plain flour and milk powder and mix until dough holds together.

3. Roll out the dough to about 0.5 cm thick. Press out dough with pineapple tart cutter. Put mound of pineapple filling in centre. Decorate top with either thin strips of dough or a small round dough.

4. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

5. Put the pineapple tarts on baking pan and bake at 180 degree C for about 15 minutes.