Egg Tart

Name: Egg Tart
Yield: For 2/3 persons
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: This is a two step recipe; Tart Shells; 2 cups Flour; 100 gm Butter (salted /unsalted); 2/3 cup Sugar (powdered); 1 Egg; 1 pinch Salt (don't add if the butter salted); 1 tsp Vanilla essence; For Tart Filling; 2 Eggs; 70 gms Powdered sugar; 1 - 1/4 cup Hot water; 125 ml Fresh milk; 1/4 tsp Vanilla essence; 1 pinch Salt

Jayati Banerjee @cook_16195885

#MidnightCravings
This was originally a Portuguese recipe . A mouth watering snack to satisfy anyone's midnight craving !

Jayati Banerjee @cook_16195885

#MidnightCravings
This was originally a Portuguese recipe . A mouth watering snack to satisfy anyone's midnight craving !

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Ingredients

For 2/3 persons

This is a two step recipe
Tart Shells
2 cupsFlour
100 gmButter (salted /unsalted)
2/3 cupSugar (powdered)
1Egg
1 pinchSalt (don't add if the butter salted)
1 tspVanilla essence
For Tart Filling
2Eggs
70 gmsPowdered sugar
1 - 1/4 cupHot water
125 mlFresh milk
1/4 tspVanilla essence
1 pinchSalt

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Steps

1

Beat the butter with an electric blender till creamy
2

Add sugar to it and beat again
3

Add egg and beat
4

Add vanilla essence and salt
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Sieve the flour and add to the butter and beat
6

Mix it well with hands and make a dough
7

Make small balls out of it
8

Push each ball in a metallic muffin cup, give it's shape with fingers, cut the excess if anything comes out above
9

Prick the base with a fork
10

For the filling dissolve sugar in the hot water and cool down
11

Beat egg milk vanilla essence salt with a hand whisk
12

Add sugar solution to it
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Sieve it through a mash
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Pour it in the unbaked tart shells and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 16-20 mins
15

I have decorated them with cherries chocolate chips and almonds