Scs Butter Get Creative with Pineapple Tarts Workshop

Frog and I were invited to the SCS butter creative pineapple tarts workshop held at Chantilly Culinary Studio. I am a fan of pineapple tarts and without much hesitation I had signed up for the workshop that was held last Sunday afternoon.

Do you love those open face tarts or the enclosed pineapple tarts? Personally, I prefer open face tarts with thick pastry crust. To me a good pineapple tart is the pastry crust. I love those melt in the mouth type pastry. Creamy, rich and buttery taste tarts.

Here are some pictures at the workshop:

Getting Ready For The WorkShop

Here are the recipes for the Pastry Crust:

Ingredients:

1 Block SCS Unsalted Butter 250g

400g Plain Flour

40g Icing Sugar

2 Egg Yolks

1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

1. Sift Flour and salt into a large mixing bowl.

2. Cut the butter into small cubes and add into the mixing bowl. Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until it has the consistency of fine breadcrumbs. If you have sweaty palm, it is alright to use the hand held mixer to mix the butter and flour. Take care not to overwork the mixture.

3. Add the egg yolks.

4. Knead until the dough is formed.

5. Wrap the dough with clingwrap and let it rest for 30mins.

For the Pineapple Jam

2 Fresh Pineapples (about 1kg each)

100g Fine Grain White Suger

Directions:

1. Peel, chop and blend the pineapple. Add a little water into the blender if required.

2. Place in a large heavy base pot and bring it to boil on a low heat. Stir occasionally to ensure that it is not burning on the bottom. Cook for about 3 hours until the liquid has reduced by half.

3. Add the sugar and continue to cook until the jams thickens.

4. Add additional spices or seasoning and cook until very thick. Let it cool before using.

After the demonstration, it was now our turn to be creative and make our creative pineapple tarts.

Different kinds of ingredients for us to get creative with our recipes!

Very serious in rolling the dough. I had added a tsp of matcha powder to the dough for making the dough green.

Here comes our final product:

Apple and heart shape Pineapple Tarts

Baking these cute pineapple tarts in the oven!

Are you tempted to start making these pineapple tarts? If you have creative pineapple tarts recipe for sharing, SCS is inviting passionate and avid bakers to share these recipes on SCS facebook page for a chance to be featured in the SCS 2015 Pinapple Tart Recipe Booklet! SCS welcome an heirloom recipe passed down through generations or a unique take on tradtional favourite. You can start sharing the recipe from now till 16 Nov 2014.

Both Frog and I had an enjoyable and fun time at the SCS get creative with Pineapple Tarts workshop. Thanks SCS for having us!