Made Fresh Today – Cooking for newbies

This time I had BH to help me with the baking 🙂 It’s the 1st time BH and I baked together! oh well, it wld be nice if we had the stand mixer. Still waiting for a good deal to make the purchase.

The pictures below are numbered. heh.. do read the descriptions after the pic if u are keen to know how we baked these tarts.

1) I prepared the pineapple jam before hand. I used 2 cans of crushed pineapple. Why didn’t I use fresh ones? Well, it’s not cheap here and I do not know how to prepare a fresh pineapple! Preparing pineapple jam takes a while coz you need to ensure that the water from the pineapple had evaporated -Â you need to be patient

2) I prepared the dough. We did not managed to take pics of how I made the dough but I knead it by hand – which is so much easier than using my lousy hand mixer. This time I placed the dough in the fridge for abt 1hr before rolling out and shaping the tarts. As you can see, we do not have the pineapple tart mould so we used a bottle cap – which works fine too!

3) BH turned out to be a better tart moulder than me. So he took over the task! You got to dust the work area and rolling pin with flour

4) I was rolling the pineapple jam into small balls, painting dough with egg wash

5) In the oven! looks so good already

6) Tadah!!! pretty??

7) we felt tt it’s a wash to throw the dough away ( kneading was hard work!) so we used the remaining dough and made them into choco chips cookies

8 ) we cooled the tarts, packed them into small boxes. This might sound crazy but we are gonna ship them to SG so that our family can have a taste of them 🙂

That’s all.. hope u enjoyed reading this! haha