Mooncakes for Mid Autumn Festival

  Snow skin with chestnut filling

 Matcha snow skin - Chestnut filling with pinenuts

新年快乐！
Happy Lunar New Year
Time for pineapple tarts and....Kueh lapis

19 layer lapis

新年快乐
Happy Lunar New year
Time for pineapple tarts...


                                     Pineapple tarts without egg wash

                                     Pineapple tarts with egg wash

                                     Pineapple tarts with floral base

                                     Big pineapple tarts with cloves

Kueh Lapis Petits fours:
Kueh Lapis for Chinese New Year
(in the style of petits fours)


I have made the traditional kueh lapis for dessert for my family early reunion dinner.
Instead of serving the usual thin slices, I made them into petitsfours; bite size kueh lapis.
I prepared the layers of batter to just about half height of  a 8"x8"x3"square tin.
After baking, I cut them into shapes with the petitsfours cutters.

Kueh lapis petits fours

Kueh lapis petits fours of different shapes

 

Gong Xi Fa Cai ! 

恭喜發財  萬事如意  
身体健康  出入平安

For this year of the dragon, my husband decided to bake his favourite- pineapple tarts. My daughter and I enjoyed helping out too.

Moulding and assembling

Fresh from the oven

Vintage tart cutter

As my oven broke down, I tried baking my kueh lapis using a Turbo Broiler.It turned out quite satisfactory except for the initial layers.

My kueh lapis