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Portuguese Custard Tarts

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

Ingredients

  • 400 grams Puff Pastry
  • 2 Tablespoons Cornstarch
  • 450 milliliters Milk, Divided
  • 1  Lemon, Zested
  • 1 stick Cinnamon
  • 200 grams Sugar
  • 6  Egg Yolks
  • Ground Cinnamon, For Dusting
  • Powdered Sugar, For Dusting

Preparation

Grease muffin pans with margarine.

Place the puff pastry over a table dusted with flour. Dust 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.

In a bowl, dissolve corn starch in 50 ml (3 1/3 tablespoons) milk.

In a saucepan, pour remaining milk, lemon peel, cinnamon stick, the dissolved cornstarch, and sugar. Stir and bring to low heat, stirring occasionally. When starts boiling, remove the lemon peel and cinnamon stick (reserve both). Turn off heat and add egg yolks one by one, stirring constantly. Add lemon peel and cinnamon stick and place back over low heat until creamy, about 3–4 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Meanwhile, preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).

Turn off stovetop heat, remove lemon peel and cinnamon stick, and pour the cream in the muffin pans. Bake for about 30 minutes.

Remove from oven, unmold and let cool. Sprinkle with cinnamon and powdered sugar and serve.

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piescientista on 3.16.2016

I was happy with these. I made them for my husband, who especially likes egg custards. He liked them a lot.

I found the recipe instructions a little confusing. Watching the video (on blog) is helpful. After rolling out the pastry gets rolled into a log and sliced like icebox cookies. This was not how I interpreted this and only saw my error when watching the video. Also, I think could be more descriptive in when they are done. Mine took about 40 minutes, they should be browned in spots.

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