Egg Tarts From Scratch By Grace Chen Are you bored at home with nothing to do? Are you craving all those yummy desserts? Well, why not make some homemade egg tarts from scratch!!
Steps:
Ingredients (you will need to make 2 types of dough) Butter Dough: 1 cup all purpose flour ¾ cups + 2 tbsp of cold butter (unsalted) Water Dough: 1 cup of all purpose flour 2 egg yolks (save the egg whites) ¼ cup of cold water Filling: ⅓ cup of sugar ½ cup water 3 large eggs + 2 egg whites 1 cup of milk 1tsp vanilla extract
1.) First combine all the ingredients for the butter dough into a food processor (or mix in a large bowl and use your hands to knead, making sure that the butter is evenly incorporated). Take the dough out, shape it into a square and wrap it in a plastic wrap. Then refrigerate for 15 mins. 2.) Mix in all the ingredients for the water dough until it becomes a ball of dough, if you need to, you can add in a little bit of water (a teaspoon) at a time. Make sure the dough isn’t too sticky. 3.) On a flat surface sprinkle some flour and roll out the water dough into a big sheet of rectangle. Then take out the butter dough from the fridge and put it on top of the water dough, and wrap the water dough over the butter dough (pretend the water dough is gift wrap and the butter dough is the present and wrap it). 4.) Roll your dough out into a big rectangular sheet, then fold your dough into 3’s. Put in the fridge for 15 mins and repeat this process 2 more times, but instead of folding into 3’s, fold into 4’s. Put in the fridge. 5.) Pour ⅓ cup of sugar into a ½ cup of boiling water and stir it until everything dissolves. Then set aside and let it cool. 6.) In a separate bowl, combine the eggs ( the egg whites from earlier and the whole eggs), milk, and vanilla extract. Whisk everything together and slowly add in the sugar water mixture. You can run your mixture through a sift a couple of times to ensure the mixture is smooth. 7.) Now take out your dough and roll it out. Then use a round cookie cutter and cut out circles. Put the circles into your molds and use your thumb to press down the sides. As you do this, preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
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8.) Use a fork and poke a couple of holes on the bottom of your dough and pour in your custard filling. Let it bake for 25-35 mins, until the crust is light golden brown. Enjoy!!! Vol. XXXVIII, Issue 2 19
