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Chinese Egg Tart Recipe
These always ran out in less than 10minutes during a potluck, my friends and family loves it!!! A little time and energy consuming but it’s worth the work and i usually do 3 set of this at one go. I have trial and error the various egg tart recipes before coming out with this.
Anyway, check out my web for a pictorial steps in the making of these tarts: http://jumphopdrop.livejournal.com/
enjoy!
- 85g Cake flour
- 15g Icing sugar
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Chilled butter
- 2 tbsp Iced water
- 50g Cake flour
- 2 tbsp Chilled butter
- 3 Eggs
- 100g Sugar
- 1 cup Whole milk
- 1/2 cup Hot water
- Firstly, prepare the WATER DOUGH:
Mixed the first five ingredients well and lightly knead for about 2 minutes until a sticky dough is formed. Set it aside. - Next, prepare the OIL DOUGH:
Mixed 50g cake flour and 2tbsp butter. Do not knead this dough. - Divide the Water dough and Oil dough into 10 portions where water and oil doughs are at 3:2 ratio. Roll each dough into a ball shape.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out a water dough. Wrap oil dough in this water dough to form a ball
- Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough into a long oval shape. After that, roll it into a swiss-roll. Give the dough a ninety degree turn , and again, roll the dough out and do a swiss-roll. Finally, roll the dough into a flat round shape. Place the dough into a small pastry tin. Repeat the same procedure for the rest of the dough.
- For Filling: Dissolves sugar in hot water. Mixed eggs and milk together followed by the sugar water. Sieve the mixture to remove lumps. Set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 400F. Blind bake the tart shells for 7mins and let it cool for 5minutes. Fill the tart shells with the prepared filling to about 90% and bake for about 20 minutes or until just set.
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Diana: for the custard filling, you don't need to cook it before hand.. just pour it into the pre-baked tart shell and continue with the baking.
Hmm, I'm pretty lazy so usually i ignore the pie weights which result in a couple of crusted-bubbles form at the pie; i poked them off so that i can maximize the filling. But for best result, use the pie weights.
and for my pictorial...+READ
Diana: for the custard filling, you don't need to cook it before hand.. just pour it into the pre-baked tart shell and continue with the baking.
Hmm, I'm pretty lazy so usually i ignore the pie weights which result in a couple of crusted-bubbles form at the pie; i poked them off so that i can maximize the filling. But for best result, use the pie weights.
and for my pictorial guide............... i'm still finding a good day to bake a set of it for more detailed photos........ I shall work on it this coming Saturday. (:
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oooh, also, your pictorial guide is not complete!
do you cook the milk-egg custard till it thickens, or just mix is and strain it right away.
Do you bake the shells with pie weights during blind baking?