Charcoal Pineapple Tart

I baked this Charcoal Pineapple Tart back in 2010 and remembered I find it nice looking.  Love the contrast color to it.  So I am keeping this in my current blog for future reference.

Findings: This is more biscuit like and does not melt in the mouth but have loose crumbs to it.

Source: Mrs Leong

What you need:

A:
565g flour
2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp charcoal powder

340 g butter, chilled

B:
2 tbsp castor sugar
3 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla essence
½ tsp salt

8 tbsp boiling water

Flour for dusting
Cloves

Glaze:
Beat 1 egg and 1 yolk with 2 drops of yellow food colouring

Method:

Sift flour, baking powder and charcoal powder. 

Rub in the butter lightly into flour with tips of fingers till mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

Beat castor sugar, egg yolks, vanilla essence, salt in a bowl.  Lightly will do.

Pour egg mixture into the flour mixture. Add boiling water and mix with both hands to form a pastry dough.

Chill dough in refrigerator for ½ hour before working on it.

Cheers!