South African Crustless Milk Tart Recipes

Steps:

• Put all the ingredients together into a bowl or food processor and beat to a smooth batter.
• Pour into a buttered pie dish (approximately 23cm/9" in diameter, but it doesn't matter if it's not exact, the finished tart will just be either a bit deeper or shallower). Sprinkle the cinnamon over the top.
• Bake for 45 minutes at 175C / 350°F
• Serve warm or cold. It sinks and becomes denser as it cools. If you eat it hot you'll need a spoon to scoop up the soft custardy tart but cold you can pick up the slices in your hand, if it hasn't vanished long before then. :).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine 1/2 cup margarine and 1/2 cup sugar in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer on low speed until creamy. Add 2 cups flour, 1 egg, baking powder, and salt; mix well until dough comes together.
• Press dough into bottom and sides of two 8-inch pie plates to form crusts.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
• Combine milk and 1 teaspoon margarine in a saucepan over medium-low heat; bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
• Mix 1 1/2 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 1/2 teaspoons flour, cornstarch, and vanilla extract into a smooth paste in a bowl. Pour over hot milk in the saucepan.
• Return saucepan to medium heat and stir milk mixture until thick, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Divide milk mixture evenly between the cooled crusts. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Cool until filling is set, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Coat a 9 inch deep dish pie plate with vegetable oil cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the egg yolks and beat until light and fluffy. Sift in the cake flour, baking powder and salt, and stir until well blended. Mix in the vanilla and milk. In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites to stiff peaks using an electric mixer. Fold into the batter. Pour into the prepared pie plate, and sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the top.
• Bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce the temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Continue to bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the center is set when you gently jiggle the pie. Serve hot or cold.

Steps:

• Stir graham cracker crumbs and melted butter together in a bowl; press firmly into a pie dish.
• Beat eggs and white sugar together in a bowl; mix in cornstarch and cake flour.
• Heat milk and cinnamon stick together in a saucepan until just under the boiling point, 5 to 10 minutes. Pour milk mixture into egg mixture, whisking constantly. Pour milk-egg mixture back into saucepan.
• Cook milk-egg mixture over medium heat, whisking constantly, until mixture thickens, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in 2 tablespoons butter and vanilla extract until completely incorporated.
• Pour milk mixture into prepared crust and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Steps:

• Crust - Step 1 - Measure the flour, baking powder and salt in a jug and whisk until combined. Cream butter and sugar together with a beater attachment until pale and fluffy (about 3 minutes). Add the egg and beat until thoroughly incorporated. By hand add in the flour mixture and mix until just combined.
• Crust - Step 2 - Press the dough into a 25cm/10inch tart plate with a removable base. Make sure that it isn't too thick and dock with a fork. Place in the freezer for 30 minutes. Meanwhile preheat oven to 200C/400F and when ready bake the base for 15 minutes or until golden and cooked through. You don't need to weight this down if you freeze the pastry. The pastry can be baked 1-2 days in advance and covered well and placed in an airtight container or box.
• Heat the milk with the cinnamon stick to just under boiling point.
• Lightly beat the eggs with the sugar, and then add the corn flour and flour.
• Pour the hot milk into this mixture, stirring rapidly.
• Return the mixture to the heat and cook, stirring until the mixture becomes thick.
• Keep stirring while it is cooking to prevent it from catching on the bottom of the pot and getting lumpy.
• Take the mixture off the heat and add the vanilla essence and butter.
• Stir well until the butter is melted.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared tart crust.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Steps:

• Melt the butter, add the egg yolks and sugar.
• Beat with a fork.
• Add the dry ingredients and milk to the egg mixture.
• Stifly beat the egg whites, fold into the mix and blend well.
• Pour into an oven dish about 35x20cm- the mixture should be about 3cm deep.
• Bake at 160C for 45-60mins.
• It is lovely with cinnamon sprinkled on top before cooking.

Steps:

• Roll out the pastry on a floured board until thinner.
• Beat an extra egg -- not one of the 4 in the ingredient list -- in a small bowl.
• Line 2 average-size or smaller pastry plates with the pastry, being careful not to strech it. Crimp edges, paint with the egg, and put in fridge to keep cold.
• Heat oven to 400 deg F/200 deg Celsius.
• Heat 3 of the cups of milk with the cinnamon. If using stick cinnamon, take it out when milk is hot (not boiling).
• Mix the flour, cornflour, salt and 4 tablespoons of the sugar with the extra cup of milk in another pot. Add the hot milk to this mixture, and keep whisking to prevent lumps forming.
• Bring to a slow boil while stirring or whisking, add vanilla, keep stirring.
• Take from heat and add the butter.
• Whisk the egg whites until stiff, add the rest of the sugar (4 tblsp) and whisk until really firm and glossy.
• Now whisk the egg yolks well, and add to the cooled milk mixture: you don't want boiled eggs!
• Fold in egg whites; use a whisk to incorporate them.
• Pour into the 2 lined pastry plates.
• Bake in the pre-heated oven: 10 mins at heat given above, then lower heat to 350 deg F/180 deg Celsius.
• Bake until puffed up and golden brown on top -- about 20+ minutes extra.
• When they come out of the oven you can sprinkle the tops with a cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• The milk tarts will fall again, which is normal. Best served still slightly warm, but can be made ahead, cooled and refrigerated. Always serve at room temperature or warm in oven again.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• For crust: Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs, then flour, salt and baking powder.
• Using ½ of dough, press into pie plate.
• Repeat with other half of dough in other pie plate.
• Prick all over with fork and bake for 10 minutes.
• No further baking is required.
• For filling: Heat milk and melt butter in it. Allow to cool 10 minutes before proceeding with recipe.
• Beat eggs with flour, cornstarch, sugar and vanilla. With a ladle, slowly dribble in some of the hot milk mixture while whisking eggs continuously, to temper the eggs and bring them up in temperature. Add all the milk mixture in this way, never forgetting to whisk.
• Pour the custard back into the pot and cook, whisking constantly, until custard thickens, about 8 minutes.
• Pour into baked shells and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
• Allow to cool completely, and refrigerate.