Egg Custard Tart Recipe with step by step pictures. This is a classic custard tart recipe made with Butter, Egg and Custard Filling. Popular english dessert which is quite technical but so worth it.
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Egg Custard Tart Recipe
I have been thinking to bake this delicious tart for a while. But somehow i have been putting it off. But few weeks back, i got the spirit to bake some tart and got into action. I know i don’t have much tart recipes in my blog, but the cool thing is, when i baked it this tart, i got some excess pastry dough from this recipe. So i used them to make two more tart recipes as well, Mind of a food blogger:)
About Egg Custard Tart Recipe
This recipes may seems long and time consuming. But it is so simple to put together, but the end result is so worth the time. It is crumbly buttery pastry topped with a cream delicious baked custard is heaven in a bite.
This custard tart recipe is a no fail and you can never go wrong in it if you follow my steps.
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Making Shortcrust pastry for custard tart is one of the tricky part. This is how you make it.
- Start by making the pastry. Take flour, salt, cold butter in a bowl. Rub with your fingers so it forms coarse breadcrumbs like mixture. Add sugar and mix well. Make a well in the centre and add in egg and mix well to make a dough. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and chill it for 30 mins.
- Preheat oven to 180 Degree C.
Rolling of Shortcrust
- Now take a 9 inch tart pan. Butter it well. Take the dough from fridge and roll it between two layer of cling wrap. Now place it over the tart pan and layer it evenly.
- Cut off the excess pastry. Now take parchment paper and crush it lightly. Lay it over the tart and fill the pastry with rice. Bake it for 20 mins.
- Now remove the parchment with rice carefully. Brush it with some beaten egg and bake it again for 5 mins.
- Remove the tart and set aside, while you make the filling.
Ingredients for Egg Custard Tart
For Pastry:
- All Purpose Flour / Maida – 2 cups / 240 grams
- Unsalted Butter – 150 grams cubed and cold
- Salt a pinch
- Sugar – 3 tbsp
- Egg – 1
For Custard Filling:
- Cream – 350 ml ( I used Amul Fresh Cream)
- Full Fat Milk – 100 ml
- Vanilla Essence – 1 tbsp
- Egg Yolks – 8
- Sugar – 100 grams
- Nutmeg Powder – 1 tsp
I am sure you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
How to make for Egg Custard Tart Recipe
Filling
- Take cream and milk in a sauce pan and heat it up. It shouldn’t boil, it should just start simmering.
- While cream is simmering, take egg yolks in a bowl and add in sugar and vanilla.
- Beat this really well so it turns fluffy.
- Now slowly pour over the cream mix while mixing it. Now the custard is done.
Baking of Tart
- Now reduce the oven temp to 130 degree C.
- Place the tart pan inside the oven tray and slowly pour the custard when it is inside the oven till the top so it doesn’t spill any where.
- Sprinkle over some nutmeg powder all over the tart and bake it for 30 to 40 mins.
- The custard should have a little jiggle in the centre.
- Remove it, un mould it and chill it in fridge for 2 hours.
- Slice and serve with a dusting of powdered sugar.
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Custard Tart Recipe | Egg Custard Tart Recipe
Egg Custard Tart Recipe with step by step pictures. This is a classic custard tart recipe made with Butter, Egg and Custard Filling. Popular english dessert which is quite technical but so worth it.
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Facts
Custard Tart Recipe | Egg Custard Tart Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 servings)
Calories 543
Calories from Fat 333
% Daily Value*
Fat 37g57%
Saturated Fat 22g138%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 10g
Cholesterol 306mg102%
Sodium 36mg2%
Potassium 130mg4%
Carbohydrates 44g15%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 19g21%
Protein 9g18%
Vitamin A 1426IU29%
Vitamin C 0.3mg0%
Calcium 81mg8%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Egg Custard Tart Recipe step by step picture
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| Take all your pastry ingredients |
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| Remove the top layer of plastic wrap, and invert the pastry over the tart, using the help of cling wrap |
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| now let it cool a bit and un mould the tart by placing a bowl in the bottom of it and sliding the tart outer shell |
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