Tasty Milk Tart Recipe

Tasty Milk Tart Recipe oven baked. Easy and quick homemade South African milk tart with a crust all baked in one. Makes two and freezes well.

Tasty Milk Tart Recipe

Bake these two homemade South African milk tart recipes for tea time dessert. It is a super easy and quick recipe to make with a pastry crust recipe included. A filling boiled with milk on the stove top and thickened, added to the crust in the dish and Oven Baked at the same time, decorated with strips of pastry. Once baked dust with cinnamon and sugar for tea time dessert or snack. Serve with some whipped cream and enjoy. So Yummy! Stores well and freezes well.

What is milk tart made of?

A milk tart originated from Dutch settlers in South Africa, and they call it Melk Tert, Afrikaans for milk tart. The pastry dough normally consist of a sweet crust. The filling is of a thick boiled milk custard that has butter, sugar and flour and eggs in. Oven baked for a delicious dessert.

Why does my milk tart crack?

Your milk tart might crack if you do not allow it to cool down at room temperature totally before placing it in the fridge to set further. If you place it to early in the fridge while it is warm it will cause those cracks.

What are the types of tarts?

Normally there are types of tarts.

1. tarts with fruit
2. tarts with custard type of fillings
3. savoury filled tarts
4. chocolate filled tarts
5. fridge tarts
6. lemon meringue tarts

How is lump formation prevented in milk tart?

To prevent the filling from forming lumps in your milk tart it is recommended to keep some milk aside. To mix the flour and other ingredients with before adding into the hot milk. This enables you to mix it to a smooth consistency before you mix it with the hot milk. Further allowing the mixture to come out smooth.

Why is my milk tart runny?

If your milk tart filling or custard is runny then you need to continue stirring it over medium heat until it thickens. Maybe not heated up well or brought to boiling point. It could also be that you have not added enough thickeners to the filling, such as eggs and flour, or cornstarch.

Can I add more cornstarch to thicken custard?

You could add more cornstarch to the custard liquid. But it is essential that the milk reaches boiling point. To thicken the milk mixture and loose the flavor of the uncooked cornstarch or flour. But cornstarch or flour stabilizers the egg yolks so they do not scramble in the custard as well as makes them tolerate the heat.

Ingredients

This recipe makes two milk tarts.

1. butter
2. sugar
3. eggs
4. flour
5. baking powder
6. salt
7. milk
8. cinnamon

All the amount of the ingredients and the full instructions to make the pastry crust and the milk tart filling will be in the recipe attached. This recipe is downloadable and printable, and also can be used online with the cook mode, so the screen does not darken.

How To

Chop butter finely with a knife, add sugar and ice cold water to this mixture. Mix it up. Whisk the egg well and add it to the butter mixture.

Sift flour and the baking powder well and add into the butter and egg mixture. With your fingers gently mix this butter flour mixture lightly. Place in a bowl in the fridge for 15 minutes.

Grease your pie dishes (this recipe makes 2)

Roll out the pastry to the size you would like (1/4 inch), at least, divide for the tart dishes and keep some for the lattice decoration. Add the crust to the dishes. (no need to pre cook the crust)

Now to make the filling. Cut the butter with a knife into small pieces. In a bowl add the butter sugar and salt with dry ingredients of flour and rub these together with fingers. Keep a small amount of milk aside to mix these ingredients into a smooth consistency.

On the stove top, bring the rest of the of milk to just boiling point. Add the mixture you just mixed together and stir this in the warm milk until thickened and smooth. Take of the stove.

Preheat the oven to 250 Deg. C (500 Deg. F)

Whisk eggs well. Add a little at a time into the warm milk mixture slowly, while you stir so not to have the eggs turn into scrambled eggs, and continue mixing it well that all is smooth and together.

Pour this milk filling into the tart dishes equally.

Add the strips of pastry you left for the tops of the milk tart. Make an easy pattern. Of just across a few times. Does not need to cover the top totally. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. At 250 Deg. C

Mix some brown sugar or white and cinnamon and sprinkle over the top of the tart.

The tops and pastry should be light brown, take it out and leave to cool on a cooling rack.

Serve for tea with some cream as a dessert.

An easy and quick recipe to bake.

Recommendations

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A great pastry crust to make for tarts —-> Easy Shortbread Crust Pastry

Another milk tart recipe that is a fridge tart —-> Blissful No Bake Custard Milk Tart and Best Homemade Milk Tart and 8 Favorite Homemade Milk Tarts

Here are some easy tart recipes to create —-> 11 Easy Fridge Tarts Recipes and Homemade Peach Crumble Tart and Mini Lemon Custard Tart Recipe and Easy Lemon Meringue Tart and make these desserts for any occasion —-> Favorite Homemade Milk Tarts

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