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Pinch the edges of the dough back around the filling, and turn seam side down. 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. The reason they are made and consumed during this time is because in the Hokkien language " ong lain " means " golden pear " and symbolizes prosperity, fortune and luck. Enclosed pineapple tarts or what are often called Kue Nenas/ Kue Nastar in Indonesian language is one of the classic popular Chinese New Year cookies in Indonesia.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook 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):
- Take 400 gr margarine
- Take 100 gr butter
- Get 3 egg yolks
- Get 150 gr sugar powder / icing
- Get 50 gr milk powder
- Get 600-650 gr all-purpose flour
- Take Pineapple Jam for filling
- Make ready For the egg wash
- Get 2 egg yolks
- Prepare 2 tbs fresh milk
If the mixture too wet, add some flour. Every year when Chinese New Year approaches, my mother in law and her sisters all gather together for a multi-day baking marathon, churning out jars and jars of nastar (pineapple jam-filled cookies/pineapple tarts) and pans and pans of lapis legit (thousand layer cake). The cute cookies you see in the pictures are called Nastar cookies. Pineapple cookies are traditional treats in Indonesia and some of its neighboring countries.
Steps 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) ☺️
The cute cookies you see in the pictures are called Nastar cookies. Pineapple cookies are traditional treats in Indonesia and some of its neighboring countries. They are called "nastar", which is an abbreviation for pineapple tart in Indonesian language. These cookies are filled with spiced pineapple jam and they are popular for their melt-in-the-mouth texture. Nastar or pineapple-filled cookie is one of the classic popular cookies in Indonesia.
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