Pineapple Short Cakes
Ingredients
- Flour 2 cups
- Butter 7 ounces
- Icing sugar ½ cup
- Egg yolk 1
- Fresh cream whipped 8 ounces
- Pineapple essence few drops
- Icing sugar 1 ounce
- Milk 2 tbsp
- Pineapple tidbits as required
Method
- Sift 2 cups flour into a bowl, mix in 7 ounces cold butter and ½ cup icing sugar, 1 egg yolk and 2 tbsp milk, form into a soft dough, cover leave it for 30 minutes, divide mixture evenly into 8, roll out each piece to 8 cm circle, pinch decorative with floured finger, put short cake on lightly greased oven tray, bake on no. 4 or 180 degree C for 20 minutes till pale golden, beat 8 ounces cream until thick, stir in few drops of pineapple essence, 1 ounce icing sugar, top short cake with cream then with pineapple tidbits. Serve immediately.
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