Nastar Gulung - Rolled Pineapple Tart
Pineapple tart cookies are Chinese New Year must have cookies. This version incorporate grated cheese into the tart crust, with and easy to handle log shape cookies.
- Prep time
- 1 hr
- Cook time
- 1 hr 30 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 can (567 gram/20 oz.) crushed pineapple
- 1 inch cinnamon stick (Indonesian: kayu manis)
- 2 cloves (Indonesian: cengkeh)
- 100 gram (1/2 cup) sugar, or to taste
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks (225 gram/8 oz.) unsalted butter, softened
- 25 gram (3 tablespoon) powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg yolk
- 275 gram (2 1/4 cup) cake flour
- 30 gram (4 tablespoon) cornstarch
- 25 gram (3 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon) milk powder
- 50 gram (1/2 cup) grated parmesan/grated cheddar
- 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten for egg wash
- black sesame seeds, decoration (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Pineapple jam filling
- 2
Boil pineapple, cinnamon, and cloves in a sauce pot over medium heat. Cook until quite dry and there is no standing liquid visible in the pot.
- 3
Add sugar and salt. Stir, cook until really dry, but make sure there are no burnt bits. Set aside to cool completely in the fridge.
- 4
Tart crust
- 5
Cream together unsalted butter, powdered sugar, and salt. Add in egg yolk, and beat until well mixed.
- 6
Sift together cake flour, cornstarch, and milk powder. Add this into the butter mixture and stir until well mixed.
- 7
Add in the grated parmesan/cheddar, mix well into a workable cookie dough.
- 8
Shaping ad baking the cookies
- 9
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Divide the dough into 5 portions. And, divide the pineapple jam filling into 5 portions.
- 10
Roll each portion of dough into 8"x4" rectangle, shape each pineapple jam into an 8" long thin log, place on the center of the dough. Roll into a log, and cut into 8 equal pieces, each 1" long. Arrange on the prepared baking sheet. (**)
- 11
Repeat until all dough and jam filling is used up.
- 12
Preheat oven to 150 Celsius (300 Fahrenheit). Chill the shaped cookies in the fridge while the oven is preheating.
- 13
Once the oven temperature reaches 150 Celsius (300 Fahrenheit), remove the cookies from the fridge, and immediately bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.
- 14
Remove from oven, then apply egg wash on top of each cookie, and decorate with black sesame seeds.
- 15
Bake again for another 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
- 16
Once the cookies are completely cool, store in air-tight container.