Portugese Egg Tart

Welcome 2013 and wishing all a happy new year with hope that 2013 will bring happiness, prosperity and good tidings to all.

One of my favourite dessert is the famous Macau egg tart aka portuguese egg tart. Since today is a public holiday, I took this opportunity to bake some for tea. This is a very easy dessert to bake especially if you use ready made pastry.

For the egg tart, I used Kawan ready made puff pastry that is easily available in supermarkets. For the custard filling, you just need the following ingredients:

1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup whipping cream
3 tbsp caster sugar
1 tbsp corn flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 egg yolks
Pinch of salt

Method:
1. Combine milk and whipping cream with 1tbsp sugar and heat them in a pot under slow fire.
2. Mix throughly the balance of the sugar, corn flour, egg yolks, vanilla extract and salt together in a separate bowl.
3. Once milk mixture comes to a boil add half to the egg mixture and mix together and add to the pot of milk. Stir until it becomes a custard. Set aside to cool.
4. Heat oven to 175C.
5. Place the pastry puff in muffin tray that have been greased and fill the pastry with the custard , 3/4 full.
6. Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.
7. Serve the egg tart once cool.

Enjoy!