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Over the Sunny Hill
Bite-sized pineapple cakes that delight your tastebuds
With the Lunar New Year just round the corner, festive goodies of
every shape and size will no doubt spring up in the shopping areas
of Singapore. Amongst these classic goodies, the pineapple tart
is one of the most recognisable and distinctive New Year snack
that will adorn the serving tables of most celebrating families. Apart
from sharing the time-honoured treats, why not have something a little different this
year?
A household name in Taiwan, Sunnyhills pineapple cakes –
affectionately termed Sunny Delights – may come across
as nondescript and ordinary: a golden-brown exterior
reminiscent of common baked confections shaped into
rectangular blocks that resemble wooden toys. One can
easily dismiss the little cake as a regular biscuit or even a
wafer block, but its shape belies its inner quality. Indeed,
once the cake is bitten into or broken into two, this is
when the delight truly starts.
Upon the first bite, luscious oodles of prepared pineapple
of a surprising freshness oozes into the mouth, kicking
off an orchestra of flavour that lingers for a moment even
after the final bite. Unlike the dark, murky colours that
characterise traditional pineapple tarts, Sunny Delights
boasts filling that is translucent to the point of being
almost transparent, with a healthy shade of yellow that
beckons the appetite. It is sweet, yet not overpowering,
with a unique tanginess that is not replicated elsewhere.
Encompassing a unique farm-bakery-store concept in
Taiwan, the Sunny Delights are baked in Taiwan through
a most stringent quality-control process. From growing
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of the pineapples to their harvesting to
cutting, baking, packaging and delivery
of the pineapple cakes, each step of
the process is carefully monitored and
controlled to ensure premium quality. In
fact, each Sunny Delight is individually
wrapped and packaged with a desiccant
on the flight from Taiwan, ensuring
optimum freshness of the confection at
its eventual destination. The pineapples
are grown on the Sunnyhills farmland
compound, while the other ingredients
that go into creating each Sunny Delight
are sourced from a responsible Taiwanese
farm that produces only the finest butter,
Japanese gourmet flour and plumpyolked
eggs.
Sunnyhills Pineapple Cake is definitely
an interesting treat this holiday season,
and with its halal certification, these
Sunny Delights will be sure to delight the
tastebuds of friends from all races and
religions.