Flaky Portuguese Egg Tarts

I am not a dessert person nor do I have sweet tooth though I love to bake and decorate cakes! I just love looking at pretty cakes and dessert especially petite four. However, once in a while I do crave for some sweet delights. Like today.

Have been wanting to eat egg tarts for so long so I went around the net and try looking for the simplest recipe to start off with. Also, I need to check the ingredients I have on hand and looking through Su's site, I got one which is extreme simple with minimal ingredients involved! Yippee! :D

I just love how flaky these tarts were and they are not the least sweet! The only down side was... the recipe only yields 6 tarts...

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Ingredients

• ¼ cup Full cream milk


• ¼ cup Whipping cream


• 4 tbsp Castor sugar


• 3 Egg yolks beaten


• 300g Puff pastry

Methods

1. Pre-heat oven to 200C (depending on your oven)


2. Pour full cream milk and whipping cream into a glass bowl and put into microwave oven for 2 minutes.


3. Once boil, remove from microwave and add in the sugar, mix till dissolved. Heat in the microwave for another 45 seconds.


4. Take out and add in the beaten egg yolks in a thin stream with a balloon whisk.


5. Cut out the puff pastry using the biggest circle (which can line your cupcake tray mould). Line the mould with at least 2 layers of the biggest circle and another one smaller circle (1cm smaller) and lightly press the pastry to fill up the mould.


6. Slowly pour in the mixture into all the shells and pop into oven for 30mins or until you see the centre pop up with brownish sides...