Tat Nenas- Pineapple Tart

This is the old recipe I tried last year... if lab papa and the wifey can remember... I did bring some of these tarts to work and let our "food tasting gang" sampled some of it :). It is very soft and tasty pineapple tart... just ask lab papa hahahaha. You can use the recipe for your Raya cookies :).

Ingredient
250g butter
50 g icing sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
35g milk powder
375 g flour (this is an estimate, add as much as you needed, as long as it is easy to shape or mould)
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp yellow food colouring
pineapple filling ( can be bought from supermarket or baking supplies shops)

Method:

1.Mix well butter and icing sugar.
2.Add in egg, mix well.
3. Pour in the vanilla essence and yellow colouring. Mix well
4. Add in the milk powder and half of the flour. Knead slowly. Add more flour until the dough does not stick to fingers.
5. Mould or shape according to whatever shapes you like with the pineapple filling in the middle.
6. Brush some egg yolk on the top of the cookies
7. Bake for 15min 180C.

Nice and simple but taste very nice..

Magic Peanut Butter Middles

This is a simple recipe but taste very yummy provided you like peanut butter :). But very sweet though, you might want to reduce the sugar in the filling if you do not like sweet cookies. My DD like it very much, I think because she loves peanut butter hehehehe

Ingredients
200g flour
40 g cocoa powder
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
100 g white sugar
110 g packed brown sugar
115 g butter,softened
65 g peanut butter (crunchy)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg

filling
90 g icing sugar
195 g peanut butter (creamy)

Method:
1. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder until well mix.
2. In bowl mixer, cream butter, peanut butter,white sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla essence and egg. Mix in the dry ingredients to the butter mixture.
3. For Filling: Mix peanut butter with icing sugar until well blended.
4. The cookie dough should be easy to mould with your fingers. Take 1 tbsp of the cookie dough and flatten it with your fingers. Fill in with 1 tsp of the filling and cover completely. Flatten the dough and place on baking tray ( remember to place them about 1-2cm apart )
5. Bake at 190C for 9 minutes.

Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies

A nice recipe. All my "customers" (my family and some of my officemates hehehehe) like the cookies. If I remember correctly, I think the original recipe includes some nuts in the ingredients, but since my daughter does not like nuts, I omitted them in my recipe.

Chocolate Chips Cookies

Preheat oven at 190C

Ingredients

50g margarine/butter

50g castor sugar

50g brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

100g self rising flour

175g chocolate chips or plain chocolate broken into small pieces

Method

1. cream the butter or margarine first and gradually add castor sugar and brown sugar little by little until finish. soft and fluffy

2. carefully add egg, adding a little of the flour if the micture begins to curdle. put in the vanilla essence

3. fold in the flour, then stir in the chocolate chips

4. shape the mixture into rounded teaspoonful and drop onto a greased baking-tray, leaving plenty of room between them as they spread during cooking. Bake for 8-10min.

using microwave

1-3, follow the instruction above

4. shape the mixture onto rounded teaspoonful and drop onto a greaseproof paper, leaving plenty of room between them as they spread during cooking. Cook on high for 2-2.5 min then leave to cool before peeling away from paper.

Magic Peanut Butter Middles

Another simple cookies recipe that I have tried. Very sweet. My daughter likes it very much.

Magic Peanut Butter Middles

Ingredients

200g flour

40 g cocoa powder

½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

100 g white sugar

110 g packed brown sugar

115 g butter, softened

65 g peanut butter (crunchy)

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg

For the filling

90 g icing sugar

195 g peanut butter (creamy)

How to make:

1. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder until well mix.

2. In bowl mixer, cream butter, peanut butter,white sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla essence and egg. Mix in the dry ingredients to the butter mixture.

3. For Filling: Mix peanut butter with icing sugar until well blended.

4. The cookie dough should be easy to mould with your fingers. Take 1 tbsp of the cookie dough and flatten it with your fingers. Fill in with 1 tsp of the filling and cover completely. Flatten the dough and place on baking tray ( remember to place them about 1-2cm apart )

5. Bake at 190C for 9 minutes.

Simple but very nice cookies especially for peanut butter lovers.