Portuguese Vanilla Custard Tarts
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The recipe for these cute and delicious Portuguese tarts was suggested to me by Gabi, one of the site's visitors. Yesterday I made them for the first time and today I repeated the feat. I predict they won't last long this time either.
This is a simple recipe, ideal to involve kids in its preparation. I personally loved putting the dough in the molds, it felt like playing with playdough again 😉
Ingredients
1 sheet puff pastry (30cm x 30cm; thawed but cold)
Vanilla Custard
500ml milk
150g sugar
1/2 vanilla bean
2 strips lemon zest
1 cinnamon stick (about 5cm)
4 egg yolks
40g cornstarch
Makes: 15
How to prepare portuguese vanilla custard tarts
- Take the puff pastry and roll it up. Cut the resulting roll into 2cm thick slices.
- Take each slice of dough, place it between two plastic sheets, and flatten with the flat bottom of a plate until you get a disc of about 10cm.
- Place the discs in muffin molds very lightly greased with oil (I dipped a paper towel in oil and used it to grease the molds; if the molds are too greasy it will be hard to place the discs because they'll slide). Press the discs with your finger to fit nicely in the mold.
- Put the tray in the refrigerator until you finish the custard.
- Prepare the custard following the instructions here (steps 1-6) with the only difference being that in step 1 you'll also add the lemon zest and cinnamon stick, along with the vanilla.
- Fill the cups with warm vanilla custard. Don't fill them too full because the custard will puff up during baking.
- Bake at 200°C for 25 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and after a few minutes you can remove them from the molds. They're delicious warm or cold, sprinkled with cinnamon.
Rolling the dough
Cutting slices
Flattening the slices
Disc in muffin mold
Discs in muffin molds
Custard in cups
In the oven, after 20 minutes
