Pineapple Tigers for a Roaring Year!

Summer: Late January 2010

Chinese New Year is just around the corner. This year i am getting into the festive mood of making some pineapple tarts! Pineapple tarts are a very popular CNY snack in Singapore, the little melts of buttery pastries are so yummy, though also packed full of calories! But it's CNY, like X'mas, it's the time to indulge and eat your worries away! :D

Here's my first batch of pineapple tarts getting the egg-wash treatment before going into the little mini-toaster oven behind me.

Since it's the year of the tiger, I have decided to make some of the tarts into the shape of the tiger! Hehe....I've got some in the shape of a flower too, with a huge ball of pineapple jam in the middle! Pineapple overkill!!!

Another close-up shot of my tiger and flower tarts.

And they turned out.....looking more like mice than tigers!!! Fat little mice!!! Hahahaha....Maybe I was thinking of the mice in the lab when shaping these!!! I will have to re-design them....

2nd batch of tigers baking in the oven!!

The 2nd batch did not look like mice anymore but rather, they looked more like cats! Hahaha....oh well, I tried!


This one looked like Hello Kitty! LOL!!

Mid-summer: 14th February 2010, 1st day in the year of the Tiger!

Here they are! They did make it to the table! My pineapple "tiger" tartlets! Eventhough they looked a bit like fat Garfields, they still give everyone the giggles when they picked one up to eat! That's what CNY is all about, a time to be happy and a time to eat!!! Eat a tiger before it eats you! Hahaha....Gong Hey Fatt Choy everyone! Have a very prosperous and good tiger year ahead! Roar!!!!