As Lunar New Year approaches, the amount of festive favourites such as love letters, bak kwa and pineapple tarts, fill the shelves of almost every shop just banking in on shopping frenzy. The same shopping frenzy that has increased the prices of these goodies to really ridiculous rates, which is a reason why my dad makes his own bak kwa, and my aunt makes her UNIQUE pineapple tarts.
As mentioned before, looking through the shelves for some pineapple tarts to satisfy my cravings just didn't work. However I got a batch of them from my aunt which helped with the craving for a while, but soon, the itch to have my grandmother's tarts was back and I had to ask mom to make some. So making it simpler by using prepared pineapple paste, mom finally got into the mood to make a batch of tarts today.
It didn't take long for her to get the dough ready, and neither did the baking with my new oven. The tedious but was building up the tart. Rolling the dough, stamping out the bases, ensuring the pineapple paste sat nicely in place, not to much or too little paste, and finally giving each tart a nice egg wash. Looking down on the tray, the tarts look like little sunflowers getting baked. Little bits of sunshine that easily fit in my mouth and satisfy my very particular craving.
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