Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy Egg Tart

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Egg Tart. The Hong Kong egg tarts I've had in SF and in Hong Kong always had a puff pastry kind of crust so next time I'll use puff pastry. I had to use almost an extra stick of butter for. Cool down for several minutes and then take the egg tarts out of the pan.

Hong Kong egg tarts are derived from the Portuguese pastel de nata from the times when the Portuguese arrived at Macau at the turn of the twentieth century.

Keep an eye on the tarts and once the egg custard starts to puff up, open a little the oven door to avoid the custard to over bake.

To make sure the egg custard is done, poke a toothpick at the center of the tart and if the toothpick standstill, the tarts are done.

You can cook Egg Tart using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Egg Tart

1. It’s 4 of eggs.

2. You need 180 ml of water.

3. It’s 1 tsp of salt.

4. It’s 1/4 cup of evap milk.

5. Prepare of Vanilla.

6. It’s 2 cups of flour.

7. Prepare 115 g of butter.

8. Prepare 2 of eggs.

Generously flour work surface and dough.

Real portuguese egg tarts have puff pastry shells, so I cut circules out of a sheet of puff pastry and lined my tart molds with that.

Also used all half and half instead of a combo of heavy cream and milk.

Nowadays, egg tarts come in all kind of flavors such as milk tarts, honey-egg tarts, ginger-flavored egg tarts, chocolate egg tarts, green-tea-flavored egg tarts, and even bird's nest tarts.

Egg Tart instructions

1. Making crust::: place butter at room temp until softened. Cream butter and sugar with mixer unti it become smooth and fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla and mix again.

2. Sift flour in 2 batches, scrape sides of the bowl between additions with a spatula and knead dough.

3. Roll the dough to a 1/2 cm thickness. Cut dough and form like a tart tin. Lightly press the dough with your thumb. Starting from the bottom then up to the sides.. While pressing the dough turn the tart tin clockwise/anti clockwise in order to make even tart shell. Trim any excess dough.

4. Mix 2 eggs, sugar, 180 ml water, evap milk and vanilla. Whisk all. Carefully pour mixture into tart shell. Then pre heat oven to 200c for 10 mins then lower the heat to 180c.Then put in tarts and bake for 55 mins.

To make easy egg tarts, mix together a sweet pastry dough and line small tart tins with it.

Then whisk together a filling of eggs, sugar syrup, milk, and vanilla.

On a lightly floured surface, trim the ends of the dough to make sure they're even, then cut the log into thirty ½-inch slices.

Place each slice into the cavity of an egg tart mold or muffin.

Egg Custard Tarts: I tried my hand at a classic Egg Custard Tart using Paul Hollywood's Recipe.