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Baked custard tart
Baked custard tart
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Prep Time:
80 minutes
Cook Time:
45 minutes
Total Time:
125 minutes
Inventive twist on classic dessert, universally adored.
Ingredients:
  • 40.00 ml apricot jam, warmed, strained
  • 1 vanilla bean, halved lengthways
  • 386.25 gm milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 2.00 egg yolk
  • 40.00 gm caster sugar
  • 0.63 gm ground nutmeg
  • fresh fruit, to serve
  • 332.50 ml plain flour
  • 53.75 gm caster sugar
  • 125g butter, chilled, chopped
Instructions:
  • For the pastry: Combine flour, sugar, and butter in a food processor until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg yolk and pulse until dough just comes together, adding 1 tablespoon cold water if needed. Turn out dough onto lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Shape into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  • 1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan-forced. Grease a 6cm-deep, 20cm springform cake pan and line the base with baking paper. Roll out pastry to 5mm thickness between two sheets of baking paper. Cut a 28cm round from the pastry and use it to line the pan. Chill in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
  • Preheat oven and place pan on a baking tray. Line pastry case with baking paper, fill with ceramic pie weights or uncooked rice, and bake until edges are light golden. Remove weights or rice and paper, then bake until the base is light golden. Let it cool and brush with jam.
  • - Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C. - Scrape out vanilla bean seeds. Discard the beans. - Combine milk, eggs, egg yolk, sugar, and vanilla seeds in a large bowl. Whisk together. - Pour the mixture into the pastry case and bake for 25 minutes until custard sets. - Sprinkle nutmeg on top. - Remove from oven and let it cool. - Chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours. - Serve with fruit.

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