New Year Cookies - Pineapple Tarts

The all-time favourite pineapple tarts are hard to come by at the stores unless one places a special order. Though it may be quite costly and time consuming to make them at home yourselves, it gets the family into the festive mood.

Each large Queensland pineapple priced around AUD3 yields about one and a half times that of the Malaysian variety. Melt in the mouth pastry is softer and more challenging to mould but tastes a lot better than the harder versions. This the result of various recipes I collected over the years from culinary schools, my aunt and in-laws.