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Egg Tart

Ingredients
  

Tart Skin

  • 125 g Butter cut into 1 cm cube and frozen
  • 180 g Plain Flour
  • 45 g Corn Flour
  • 50 g sugar
  • 1 egg
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla essence

Custard

  • 3 eggs
  • 60 g Sugar
  • 150 g Milk
  • 1 Tablespoon Condensed milk
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract I used vanilla pod

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven at 200C.

Make the skin

  • Sift the flours into a food processor.
  • Add the cold butter and sugar into the food processor and process until they look like bread crumbs (less than 30 seconds)
  • Add the vanilla essence and egg, bring the mixture into a dough.
  • Refrigerate for about 20 minutes.

Make the custard

  • Place all the ingredients into a bowl and stir till mixed. Don't beat! Minimize movement!
  • Sift the mixture 3 times, and ensure the sugar is dissolved.

Bake

  • Divide the dough into 20 and roll out each to 1/4 cm thick.
  • Place over the mold. Cut off the excess pastry that spreads over the mold.
  • Pour the custard mixture into each to about 85% full.
  • Bake at a low shelf in the oven for 15 minutes.
  • When the custard starts to rise a little, lower the heat to 180C and bake for another 2 minutes.
  • Keep the tarts in the oven for another 15 minutes while having the oven door ajared.
  • Remove immediate and serve.