Chinese New Year : Pineapple Cookie / Tart Recipe

Happy Chinese New Year 2104! Time really fly when I recall back how I spent my Chinese New Year first time away from my home country. Me and hubby was at Melbourne during last year CNY. Though we are at a western country, but the CNY atmosphere was not lacking compared back to Malaysia or I should say Melbourne had a merrier CNY celebration =)

Well, for CNY, pineapple tart / cookie it's has been a "must have' for me. Been making these cookies since I was in secondary school and revising the recipe to a perfect one. What is perfect pineapple cookie for me? A 'perfect' pineapple cookie for me is, it shall melt once put our mouth. So below is the recipe which would like to share with you during this festive season. I know it's kinda late to make cookies 2 days before the day, apologize for that. Hope you like this recipe!

Pineapple Tarts / Cookies

Ingredients:
(A)
250g magarine / butter
50g icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 egg yolks
2 tbsp Ghee / pure cow butter (This is important)

(B)
400g plain flour
20g cornflour

(C) Pineapple Fillings (Boiled to thick)
500g chopped pineapple, strained
250g castor sugar
1/4 tsp pineapple essence
** Alternatively you can use ready made pineapple paste sell at baking shop.

Method
1. Beat (A) till creamy and slowly stir in (B).
2. Put in the dough in mould and press out pattern
3. Spread the pineapple filling (C) and roll up. Brush top with beaten egg.
Bake the cookie at 160 celcius for about 25 minutes.

Legoland Malaysia

Ooops it's been long long time since I last update my blog. Many things has changed during this period. Back to Malaysia again and start a work life at KL after being a 'temp house wife' at Melbourne. Life still goes on =p

Let's move to something interesting. My hubby was a Lego's fan since young and when we got to know that  Legoland will be setup in Johor Bahru, we were so excited and been waiting for the theme park to be completed.  Legoland Malaysia was completed in September, 2012 but due to huge crowd of visitors and also we are away from home, thus our trip has been delayed till last year Christmas (Dec 2013).

Apart from the theme park, Lego themed Hotel was also built up beside the theme park. Initially we are planning to have a night stay at the Lego hotel as we are way attracted with the room theme, unfortunately the rooms were all fully booked during festive season. Thus we took up the 2days 1night Legoland package from Thistle Hotel Johor Bahru (Thistle Johor) which the price was pretty decent.

We started our journey from KL in the early morning and stop by Malacca for our favourite chicken rice ball before head to Johor Bahru. Before our journey, we did a quick study on the theme park and key attractions we are looking forward is the Brick Shop, hoping that we can find some 'special' or hard to find Lego collections and also there is a part where we could actually buy our Lego bricks that we missed out at home and it is priced by weight. Similar like we are buying candy from the candy bar, we choose the bricks we like, weigh and then pay it. =)

During our visit at the park, we also saw the Legoland employee wear a cute Lego name badge. We thought of getting ourselves a customized name tag for ourselves too which it will make a memorable souvenir from Legoland. We been looking around all the souvenir shops and lastly knew that the name badge is only for employees. We are little disappointed initially but hubby suggested that why not we make one ourselves since we can buy the bricks from the souvenir shop. =P. Below is the outcome:

Overall the theme park was not bad but not too large compare to other international theme park. There are still rooms to improve. Rides are mainly suitable for kids and foods inside the park are also pretty well priced in my humble opinion. Do visit Legoland Malaysia website for more details.