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Portuguese custard tarts

Portuguese custard tarts

112 min · Serves 6 · By TheMealDB Import

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  • Portuguese
  • Dessert

Portuguese, Dessert

Adapted from olivemagazine.com

Ingredients

For 6 servings

  • 2 tbsPlain Flour
  • 2 tbsIcing Sugar
  • 375 gPuff Pastry
  • 250 gCaster Sugar
  • 2 stripsLemon Zest
  • 1 StickCinnamon
  • 2 Eggs
  • 4 Egg Yolks
  • 50 gCorn Flour
  • 500 mlWhole Milk
  • 1 Pod ofVanilla

Method

Prep 22 min · Cook 90 min

  1. 1Roll the pastry
  2. 2Mix the flour and icing sugar, and use this to dust the work surface. Roll the pastry out to make a 45 x 30cm rectangle. Roll up lengthways to create a long sausage shape.
  3. 3Cutting pastry into rounds
  4. 4Cut the pastry into 24 wheels, about 1-2cm thick.
  5. 5Roll out each pastry portion
  6. 6Roll each wheel lightly with the rolling pin to fit 2 x 12-hole non-stick fairy cake tins.
  7. 7Press pastry into the tin
  8. 8Press the pastry circles into the tins and mould into the tins to make thin cases. Chill until needed.
  9. 9Make the infused syrup
  10. 10Heat the oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Make a sugar syrup by bringing the sugar, 200ml water, lemon zest and cinnamon stick to the boil. Reduce until syrupy, allow to cool, then remove the cinnamon and lemon. Whisk the eggs, egg yolks and cornflour until smooth in another large pan.
  11. 11Making custard
  12. 12Heat the milk and vanilla pod seeds in a separate pan until just below the boil. Gradually pour the hot milk over the eggs and cornflour, then cook on a low heat, continually whisking.
  13. 13Add syrup to custard
  14. 14Add the cooled sugar syrup to the custard and whisk until thickened slightly.
  15. 15Pour custard into the tins
  16. 16Pour the custard through a sieve. Pour into the pastry cases and bake for 15 minutes until the pastry is golden and the custard has darkened.
  17. 17cool and dust with icing sugar
  18. 18Cool completely in the tins then sift over icing sugar and ground cinnamon to serve.