26/09/2022
Milktart 🇿🇦
Baked by: Cooking with Kim Bagley
In keeping with heritage Month
A South African Classic 🇿🇦
Milktart Recipe ( makes 2 Tarts)
Base Ingredients
250g butter
2 ½cups flour
½ cup castor sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 egg
Pinch of salt.
Method
In a bowl add the flour, salt , baking powder and castor sugar.
Rub the butter into the flour mixture until it comes together.
Add the egg and combine until a soft dough is formed.
Press by hand into two flan pans or two foil pie pans. Make sure that its not to thick when you press it into the pan, because it will rise(so if you make your base thick, then you will have less filling inside).
Prick with a folk and
bake for 15 mins or until light brown at 180°C. Allow to cool.
Filling Ingredients
4 cups milk (1L)
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 cinnamon sticks
2 ½ Tbs corn flour
2 ½ Tbs cake flour
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 Tbsp butter
Pinch of salt
Method
In a saucepan add the milk, vanilla essence, stick cinnamon and butter. Heat on medium to low.
In another bowl add the eggs, sugar, cornflour and flour. Mix everything together until it is lump free.
Use a ladle and pour milk mixture and slowly add it to the egg mixture making sure that you are whisking while you add the milk.
Keep adding ladle's of milk until the egg mixture is the same temperature as the milk in the pot.
Add the egg mixture to the pot of milk thats left in the pot.
Cook on medium heat for 10 mins until the mixture thickens.
Once the mixture is thick, remove cinnamon sticks and add it to the two bases. If mixture to weak, it will not set and it will be runny.
Sprinkle with cinnamon powder and refrigerate until set.
