Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pineapple cookies (kue nastar). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
These cookies are a must in every celebration in Indonesia! Chinese new year will not be complete without a jar of these wonderful buttery cookies, filled with sweet pineapple jam spiced with hints of cinnamon and cloves. These pineapple cookies called Kue Nenas or Kue Nastar in Indonesian, is one of the most popular traditional sweets to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pineapple cookies (kue nastar) using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar):
- Make ready 400 gr margarine
- Get 100 gr butter
- Get 3 egg yolks
- Make ready 150 gr sugar powder / icing
- Make ready 50 gr milk powder
- Prepare 600-650 gr all-purpose flour
- Get Pineapple Jam for filling
- Take For the egg wash
- Make ready 2 egg yolks
- Take 2 tbs fresh milk
Indonesian Nastar Cookies have delicious pineapple inside. These cookies are eaten for Natale (Christmas), the Chinese New Nastar Pineapple Cookies. Nastar or pineapple-filled cookie is one of the classic popular cookies in Indonesia. You will see it everywhere during Chrismast, Chinese New Year, and Eid-al-Fitr.
Instructions to make Pineapple cookies (Kue Nastar):
- Mix the egg yolks, margarine, butter and sugar until the mixture rise and color change to pale yellow
- Add the milk powder and all-purpose flour in batches until you get the right consistency, not too hard, but no longer sticking on your hand
- The amount of flour you'll use might be different (slightly more or less) depending on how big us the yolks and the flour you use
- Then get approx. 20gr of dough, form a round shape and press the middle part to create a crater where you can add your pineapple jam in there
- Cover the jam with the dough, make a half-circled shape (or any shape), then place it on your baking tray
- Arrange it nicely once all the dough is filled with pineapple jam, then spread the egg wash on top of them
- Bake in a preheated oven with 180°c for approximately 25-30mins
- Once all the cookies are baked, let it cool before you place them in a jar.
- Store it in an airtight jar, it'll last for a month (if you haven't finished it by then) ☺️
Kue nastar adalah kue yang berbentuk bulat kecil-kecil yang diisi Nastar Gulung - Rolled Pineapple Tart. Pineapple tart cookies are Chinese New Year must have cookies. Sweet pineapple jam rolled in soft milky cookies. There's no specific occasions for these cookies to be eate. One pineapple is actually made up of dozens of individual floweret's that grow together to form the entire fruit.
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