I made this Lunar New Year recipe a little late this year: homemade pineapple tarts! I got this recipe from Tasty and added my own twist: an adorable llama design! I used an adorable llama cookie cutter I acquired on a trip to Ferndale, CA. The I used a pineapple center to make a basket/blanket for the llama and butterscotch chips to make the llamas’ eyes. Overall this cookie creation is delicious: buttery, flaky, with just the perfect balance of sweetness. Full recipe below.

Llama Pineapple Tarts Recipe
Ingredients for the jam:
- 3 20-oz of canned pineapple
- 250g Sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick (you can use a different spice)
Instructions for the jam:
- Sift the canned pineapple and put them into a food processor, mix them until its smooth.
- Cook the smooth pineapple with the sugar and cinnamon stick for 30 minutes, until it seems dry.
- Lastly, sift the pineapple again for about 20 minutes.
Ingredients for the cookie dough:
- 500g flour
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- 375g of unsalted butter
- 80g of powderd sugar
- 6 egg yolks
- 1 tsp of vanilla
- a little bit of butter
Instructions for the cookie dough:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sift the flour and baking powder.
- Cream in a different bowl the butter and sugar. When your butter and sugar is nice and fluffy add slowly one yolk at the time. Afterwards add the tsp of vanilla.
- Put the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and fold it until you have a nice smooth dough.
- Rest the dough for an hour.
- Combine both: Roll out the dough with flour until ur favorite thickness.
- Cut our the cookies with a llama-shaped cookie cutter and put cookies on a greased baking sheet.
- Make a small ball with the jam and place it ion the upper back of the llama, as if the llama has a blanket on its back.
- Take the rest of the dough and roll it out again. Cut small strips out of the remaining dough. Place 2 cookie strips on every pineapple jam ball.
- Melt a little bit butter and spread it over the cookie.
- Finally, use a butterscotch chip for each llama eye.
- Place your cookies in you pre-heated oven (350°F/180°C) for 15 minutes.
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