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Burnt custard tarts

The tops should be properly scorched. A pale custard tart is an undercooked one.

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The tops should be properly scorched. A pale custard tart is an undercooked one.

Burnt custard tarts

Prep
30 min
Cook
20 min
Serves
12

Ingredients

Method

  1. Roll the pastry into a tight log, cut 12 discs, and press each into a muffin tin from the middle outwards.
  2. Warm the cream, milk, lemon peel and cinnamon and leave to infuse for 10 minutes, then strain.
  3. Whisk the yolks, sugar and cornflour, pour the warm cream over, return to the pan and stir until thick.
  4. Fill the cases three-quarters full. Bake at 250°C for 15–20 minutes, as hot as the oven will go.
  5. They want black blisters on top. Cool for 10 minutes before lifting them out.

Watch: shaping the dough

The shaping is the step everyone asks about. Everything else reads fine.
Marta, the author

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Marta Oliveira

Cooking out of a small kitchen in Lisbon and writing it all down so it does not get lost. Four rounds of testing before anything gets published.

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