Making Taiwanese Pineapple Tea Cakes

It starts with whole, ripe pineapples

A few days prior, two entire pineapples were chopped and then reduced down to a chewy jam. This is all that remains. No sugar or thickeners are added at all.

Each dough ball is measured, to the exact gram, as is the filling. Push the filling in, then mould around the filling.

Filled ball is placed in a special aluminum baking form, which we brought back from Taiwan.

​Mom is a Cake-Stomping Machine!!

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Let the cake-stomping begin.

​Baked until golden, then cooled:

These pretty little wrappers, also from Taiwan, keep the cakes fresh and tasty.