Egg Tart. The Hong Kong egg tarts I've had in SF and in Hong Kong always had a puff pastry kind of crust so next time I'll use puff pastry. I had to use almost an extra stick of butter for. Add the rest of the beaten egg yolk.
Spray the tart pan with a light coating of oil.
Real portuguese egg tarts have puff pastry shells, so I cut circules out of a sheet of puff pastry and lined my tart molds with that.
Also used all half and half instead of a combo of heavy cream and milk.
You can have Egg Tart using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Egg Tart
- You need 4 of eggs.
- It's 180 ml of water.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/4 cup of evap milk.
- It's of Vanilla.
- It's 2 cups of flour.
- Prepare 115 g of butter.
- Prepare 2 of eggs.
The flavor of Hong Kong egg tarts fresh from the oven is simply amazing. Having them right out of the oven is a whole new experience against the lukewarm version you get from the store. Egg tart made with Chinese puff pastry is one of the best Chinese desserts among the dim sum spread in Cantonese cuisine. To make easy egg tarts, mix together a sweet pastry dough and line small tart tins with it.
Egg Tart step by step
- Making crust::: place butter at room temp until softened. Cream butter and sugar with mixer unti it become smooth and fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla and mix again.
- Sift flour in 2 batches, scrape sides of the bowl between additions with a spatula and knead dough.
- Roll the dough to a 1/2 cm thickness. Cut dough and form like a tart tin. Lightly press the dough with your thumb. Starting from the bottom then up to the sides.. While pressing the dough turn the tart tin clockwise/anti clockwise in order to make even tart shell. Trim any excess dough.
- Mix 2 eggs, sugar, 180 ml water, evap milk and vanilla. Whisk all. Carefully pour mixture into tart shell. Then pre heat oven to 200c for 10 mins then lower the heat to 180c.Then put in tarts and bake for 55 mins.
Then whisk together a filling of eggs, sugar syrup, milk, and vanilla. Fill the pastry tins with the mixture and bake the tarts until they're set and the pastry browns a little. Make the puff pastry: In a small bowl, whisk the butter until it is the consistency of sour cream. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, combine the flour, water. Nowadays, egg tarts come in all kind of flavors such as milk tarts, honey-egg tarts, ginger-flavored egg tarts, chocolate egg tarts, green-tea-flavored egg tarts, and even bird's nest tarts.