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Custard Tarts

annakidman puhoi april2016 83 of 108 450x450
  • Cooking Time
    20 minutes
  • Serves
    8

Ingredients

  • 400g Packet frozen sweet shortcrust pastry, thawed
  • 1 Egg white, lightly beaten, for brushing pastry
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 1 ½ cups Puhoi Valley Half & Half Milk, warmed
  • 2 Tbsp Caster sugar
  • For dusting Ground nutmeg

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190°C.

  2. Line 8 individual tartlet tins (about 8cm x 2cm deep) with shortcrust pastry. Place pastry lined tartlet tins (with paper and blind baking beans or rice), in a shallow oven tray and place in the oven. Bake blind for 10-12 minutes. Remove from the oven and remove baking paper and beans or rice. Brush baked pastry shells well with the egg white then return to the oven for about 5 minutes to seal.

  3. Lower the oven temperature to 160°C.

  4. Whisk together the egg and egg yolk. Stir the warm milk and sugar together until the sugar dissolves. Mix together then strain mixture into a jug.

  5. Carefully pour mixture into the tartlet cases, place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until the custard is just set, a little wobbly in the centre is good.

  6. Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely before removing tartlets from their tins. Dust tartlets with ground nutmeg before serving.