Recipe: Tasty Egg Tart

Egg Tart. The best Hong Kong egg tarts are made from the Chinese puff pastry, which is slightly different from the western puff pastry. This pastry is less oily than the western version with a more floury flavor. To make egg tarts, start by creaming butter, eggs, and powdered sugar, then mixing in the flour to create the dough.

Hong-Kong style egg tarts are probably my favorite pastry. And the best part is…they can be made Chinese or Hong Kong egg tarts can be found in Hong Kong, Macau, and other parts of China. You can reduce the sugar used on the crust and the filling to fit your taste. You can cook Egg Tart using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Egg Tart

1. You need 4 of eggs.
2. It's 180 ml of water.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
4. You need 1/4 cup of evap milk.
5. You need of Vanilla.
6. Prepare 2 cups of flour.
7. It's 115 g of butter.
8. You need 2 of eggs.

See more ideas about Egg tart, Tart, Tart recipes. These Cantonese egg tarts are classic pastry in Hong Kong, with buttery, crisp and crumbly tart shell, silky smooth custard inside. Hong Kong-style egg tarts are widely found in Chinatowns throughout the world. In Singapore and Malaysia, it is one of the main desserts in dim sum restaurants.

Egg Tart instructions

1. 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.
2. Sift flour in 2 batches, scrape sides of the bowl between additions with a spatula and knead dough.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Egg tarts are my favorite Chinese dessert. I remember my mom always treating me to them Chinese egg tarts (aka daan taat) is a dessert consisting of a flaky pastry shell filled with an egg custard. Freshly baked egg tarts with buttery base and soft egg custard insides. Here's the gee tart recipe that I used. Chinese egg tart variety is believed to be a cross between the classic British egg custard, which is much creamier than the Chinese tart, and the famous Portuguese tarts, known as pastéis de nata.