Portuguese custard tarts Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 tbs Plain Flour
• 2 tbs Icing Sugar
• 375g Puff Pastry
• 250g Caster Sugar
• 2 strips Lemon Zest
• 1 Stick Cinnamon Buy: Cinnamon Quills · ₺48.99
• 2 Eggs
• 4 Egg Yolks
• 50g Corn Flour Buy: Red Corn Flour · ₺224.99
• 500ml Whole Milk Buy: Beidou Whole Powder Milk · ₺87.99
• Pod of Vanilla Buy: Sugared Vanilla 5 Packs · ₺16.99
• To serve Cinnamon Buy: Cinnamon Quills · ₺48.99

Preparation

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

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