Milk Tart
A delicate and velvety milk tart
Ingredients
Pastry:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 egg
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 125 g butter
- pinch of salt
Filling:
- 4 ½ cups milk
- 2 ½ Tbsp cornstarch
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 2 ½ tbsp flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp butter
Instructions
Pastry:
- In a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar well together and add the egg, before beating well.
- Add all other ingredients and mix until you have a stiff dough.
- Press into a tart or pie dish.
- Bake blind for 15 minutes at 350°F (use wax paper to cover the pastry and place dry beans/rice, or pie weights, over the paper to weight the pastry down). Then remove the paper and beans/rice and bake for an additional 5 minutes until light brown.
Filling:
- In a medium pot, bring milk to a gentle boil.
- In a medium bowl, beat eggs well and add sugar, flour, corn starch and salt. Mix well.
- Pour boiling milk into the mixture and stir well.
- Return to pot on the stove and stir for 10-12 minutes on medium heat until the mixture thickens.
- Add butter and vanilla essence and mix through, then pour into cooked shell.
- Allow to cool in the fridge. Sprinkle with cinnamon before serving.