Simple egg tart recipe

Hong Kong style eggtart is always one of my favourite chinese pastries. ( I like portuguese egg tart too lah ). 

What triggers me to bake this is actually my mum's friend, Aunty Sylvia, bakes eggtart for us and it's super nice! So i got the recipe from her hehe
Her recipe is rather simple and uses only basic ingredients like flour, egg, sugar. What you need to buy additionally is evaporated milk

Egg Tart Recipe 

makes 20

Tart Ingredients

250gram Plain Flour

120gram salted butter (room temperature)

55gram icing sugar

1 egg

1tsp vanilla essence

Direction : Whisk egg and sugar until incorporated then add vanilla essence. Slowly mix butter and then flour. Avoid kneading dough.

When you think the dough is ready, cover it with fresh wrap (保鲜纸) and put it in fridge. At least 20mins, can put over 1 night.

Filling ingredients

100gram sugar

300ml water

4 eggs

80m evaporated milk ( 淡奶）

Direction : Boil 300ml water and slowly add sugar until fully dissolved. Cool the sugar water to room temperature then slowly add the 4 eggs, mix evenly, and then the evaporated milk. 

* Note that the eggs are best to be beaten fully &

the sugar water is important to be at room temperature, you dont want scrambled egg :P

If you are ready to bake, just take the dough out of the fridge and then fill the filling. Bake at 200 degree celcius , about 15-20mins.

Few things to note, it's better to buy tart moulds as the tarts will look better. For the first
egg tart, i pour in the filling and then bake in the oven together, but it makes the crust in the middle a bit wet and soft. So i suggest to bake the crust for a few mins then pour in the filling. 

Next , Let the photo speaks!

^ First egg tart! 

 ^ tada out from the oven

^look at the middle carefully, it's abit wet and soft as i did not pre-bake the crust for a few min

The edges of the egg tart is rather dark, i think that's because it's quite thin, i didnt spread the dough quite evenly.

^ Wooo some have dark spots like portuguese egg tarts, is this not supposed to happen haha

^ last photo!

The taste is not as nice as Aunty Sylvia's :( Hers is heavenly good, wonder what have i done differently :(
Feel free to ask me if you have any questions :)

Okay, Here's the post about me baking egg tart, I will post if i makes better egg tart next time hehe

Bye Bye :)