Best Homemade Milk Tart

Best Homemade Milk Tart a no bake recipe,  made with biscuit base with butter and cinnamon, is so yummy for a dessert or tea time treat.

Best Homemade Milk tart

The best no cook and no bake homemade milk tart recipe idea is very easy to make and uses just 5 ingredients. Base is made with melted butter and crushed tennis biscuit. Pressed firmly into a greased glass tart or pie dish. The filling is a condensed milk, milk and maizena or cornstarch mix to thicken it, boiled on the stove top. Added to the biscuit base, the filling for a chilled dessert.

Why is my milk tart not setting?

Your ratio of the mazena or cornstarch should be correct as per the recipe. Boiled until thickened. Cool before placed in the fridge before serving chilled.

Does milk tart contain eggs?

Yes, this no bake milk tart contains one egg, it is mixed with the milk and vanilla and condensed milk.

What is a milk tart interesting facts?

The milk tart, or “melktert” in Afrikaans, is one of South Africa’s most traditional sweet pies or tarts. The recipe originated in the Cape of Good Hope. Dutch settlers introduced the milk based filling and the Cape Malays added the cinnamon flavor. The result is a rich, creamy custard filling with a hint of cinnamon. Either a no bake fridge tart recipe or an oven baked milk tart recipe.

Ingredients

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1. 1 Tin of condensed milk 
2. 900 ml of milk
3. 3 heaped Tbsp of mazena (corn flour for thickening)
4. 150 ml of milk (to mix mazena or cornstarch to a paste)
5. 1 egg
6. 5 ml of vanilla essence (1 tsp)
7. cinnamon (to sprinkle on top )
8. Biscuits and butter for base of tart.

How To Make

Crush the tennis biscuits or any coconut or graham cracker biscuits you have. Melt the butter and mix with the crumbs, then pressing them into the pie shell.

Bring to boil the milk and condensed milk, and other ingredients. Stir in the cornflour mix and keep

whisking to keep the mixture from becoming lumpy.

Once the milk mixture has thickened pour over the biscuit base.

Fill the glass tart bowl, with all the milk mixture.

Sprinkle cinnamon on top of the milk tart and leave to cool on a cooling rack.

Refrigerate for a few hours and then the tart will be ready for tea and coffee. enjoy

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