Portuguese Custard Tarts

Submitted by Food From Portugal

"Try these typical Portuguese Custard Tarts. Filled with a delicious cream sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, it’s impossible to resist."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 14

ingredients

• 14 ounces puff pastry
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 6 egg yolks
• 7 ounces sugar
• 1 3⁄4 cups and 2 1/2 tablespoons milk
• 1 lemon, zest of
• 1 cinnamon stick
• cinnamon, and powdered sugar for dusting

directions

1. Grease muffin pans with margarine.
2. Place the puff pastry over a table dusted with flour. Dust the pastry with a little more flour and roll out the pastry into a rectangle shape with a rolling pin. Roll the pastry from one end to the other and cut in round slices with 4 centimeters / (1 1/2 inches). Put the slices within the muffin pans and press the center of the pastry with fingers until fill completely the muffin pans, set aside.
3. In a bowl, dissolve the corn starch in 50 ml / (3 1/3 tablespoons) milk.
4. In a saucepan, pour the remaining milk, lemon peel, cinnamon stick, the dissolved corn starch and sugar. Stir and bring to low heat, stirring occasionally. When starts boiling, remove the lemon peel and the cinnamon stick (reserve both). Turn off the heat and add the egg yolks one by one, stirring constantly. Add the lemon peel and the cinnamon stick and place back over low heat until obtain a creamy mixture, about 3 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180ºC / (350ºF).
6. Turn off the heat, remove the lemon peel and the cinnamon stick and pour the cream in the muffin pans. Bake for about 30 minutes.
7. Remove from oven, unmold and let cool. Sprinkle with cinnamon and powdered sugar and serve.

Reviews

[The 500 Chef]

First time I've ever made these. Absolutely delicious. They are on my keep list