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Pineapple Cake

Name: Pineapple Cake
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Taiwan
Ingredients: 150g Butter (softened); 50g Powdered sugar; 1 Egg Yolk; 250g All-purpose flour; 20g Powdered milk; 300g Pineapple Jam Filling

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Crumbly butter pastry wrapped around sweet-tart pineapple filling — Taiwan's classic souvenir sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

In Taiwanese, the word for pineapple (ong-lai) sounds like 'prosperity arrives,' so pineapple cake is considered lucky, and this traditional sweet is hugely popular as a gift and souvenir. Crumbly, buttery pastry is wrapped around plenty of sweet-tart filling made from slowly cooked-down pineapple, then baked. Many shops now offer both a sweeter type mixed with winter melon and a tangier 100% pineapple version.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Taipei bakery, tourists buy box after box of pineapple cakes lined up on display and arrange to ship them home as gifts.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Butter (softened) 150g
Powdered sugar 50g
Egg Yolk 1
All-purpose flour 250g
Powdered milk 20g
Pineapple Jam Filling 300g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cream the butter and powdered sugar until pale, then add the egg yolk.
Sift in the flour and milk powder, fold gently into a dough, and rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Divide the dough and pineapple filling into portions of about 20g each.
Wrap the filling in the dough and shape into rectangles with a wooden mold or by hand.
Bake at 170°C for 15 minutes, flip, and bake 10 more until lightly colored.

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