Golden Pineapple Balls

Source : Wen's Delight

Ingredients:

230 gr Butter (SCS salted butter) - thawed for 15mins before beating.

35 gr Castor sugar ( I used 20 gr )

1 tsp Icing sugar ( I used 40 gr )

2 Egg yolks (33-35g)

1 tsp Vanilla

340g Top flour

25g Full cream milk ( I used milk powder)

500 Pineapple filling

1 no Beaten egg for egg wash (remove 1 tbsp of white & add 2 drops of oil)

Method:

- Preheat oven at 170-180C ( my oven I used 150C ). Line the baking tray.

- Beat butter, sugar, icing sugar & vanilla for 2 to 3 mins.

- Add in egg yolks till well mix.

- Add in sifted flour & milk powder by using a spatular. (do not overmix)

- Divide the pineapple filling into 6g balls.

- Split the dough into 8g and wrap the filling.

- Egg wash & bake on the line tray at 170-180C for 20 mins.

Yields : approx. 70 pcs

As requested by my son, as he only like the skin but not pineapple filling, some I wrapped the filling with chocolate chips and made the popular sheep design cookies via facebook.

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