Chinese New Year: Rolled Pineapple Tart (Nastar Gulung) Amigurumi Crochet Pattern・农历新年: 钩针编织黄梨卷
The Year of the Fire Horse is just under one week away now! For Chinese New Year this year, I'm again serving up another batch of crochet pineapple tarts. Rolled pineapple tarts, to be precise. I made these crochet pineapple rolls last year alongside the crochet pineapple tart balls , which were the main feature of last year's Chinese New Year. See below for the crochet pattern. Crochet pineapple tart rolls, the centre is the crochet pineapple tart ball. This rolled pineapple tart version was inspired by the Indonesian nastar gulung . As mentioned in my first pineapple tart post in 2022 (wow! 4 years ago), pineapple tarts in Indonesia are also known as kue nastar or nastar gulung ; the latter literally means "pineapple roll". The pastry of nastar rolls is made with a semperit extruder mould , which gives them their distinctive ridged pattern. I tried replicating the ridged pattern by crocheting in the back loops. These pineapple rolls may be my final batch of pi...
