Taiwan

Pineapple Cake

Name: Pineapple Cake
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 12 pieces
Cuisine: Taiwan
Ingredients: 120 g Butter; 200 g + 30 g Flour & cornstarch; 40 g Icing sugar; 1 Egg; 600 g Fresh pineapple; 60 g Sugar (for the filling)

Taiwan's buttery pastry with pineapple filling

The pineapple cake (fonglisu) is Taiwan's most famous edible souvenir: a crumbly butter-pastry cube with a sweet-tart pineapple filling.

In Taiwanese, “pineapple” sounds like “good fortune comes” - so the pastry is seen as a lucky charm and a popular festive gift.

Servings12 pieces

Time90 min

LevelAdvanced

Ingredients

Butter120 g
Flour & cornstarch200 g + 30 g
Icing sugar40 g
Egg1
Fresh pineapple600 g
Sugar (for the filling)60 g

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Finely grate the pineapple and reduce with sugar to a thick jam.
Knead butter, icing sugar, egg and flour into a short pastry.
Portion the dough, enclosing a ball of pineapple filling in each.
Press into rectangular moulds.
Bake at 170 °C until golden, let cool.

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Ingredients for Taiwanese pineapple cake are in the Asia Boutique.

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