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    Home » Our latest posts » Desserts

    Egg Tarts Are a Delicious Dessert to Bring Good Luck

    January 7, 2020 Filed Under: Desserts, Pies and Cobblers

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    Easy Creamy Egg Tarts are a delicious treat for Chinese New Year. Flaky crust and creamy filling make this a delicious dessert everyone will enjoy.

    Chinese Egg Tarts are a traditional dessert served in dim sum restaurants and often served for Chinese New Year to bring abundance in the coming year.

    egg tarts in a muffin pan with text overlay "easy egg tarts for Chinese New Year"

    Egg Tarts evolved in Hong Kong based off of British custard tarts. It has a smooth glossy top.

    The Macau version (pasteis de nata) is similar but was influenced by the Portuguese colonizers and has a scorched top, like crème brûlée.

    This version is so easy you can make them anytime you want a special individually sized dessert. .

    Ingredients and Alternatives for Egg Tarts

    The ingredients are pretty basic kitchen ingredients:

    • flour
    • butter
    • evaporated milk
    • powdered sugar
    • granulated sugar
    • eggs
    • vanilla extract

    Instead of the cupcake wrappers you can put the pastry straight into the cupcake pan To decorate the edges use a fluted pastry cutter or a sandwich cutter sealer to cut, or cut with a biscuit cutter and use a fork pressed into the edges to decorate. Or leave the edges plain.

    Hong Kong Egg Tarts

    egg tarts in a muffin pan with text overlay "easy egg tarts for Chinese New Year"
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    Ingredients
     

    Pastry

    • 1 to 1 ½ cups flour
    • ½ cup cold butter (cubed)
    • ½ cup powdered sugar
    • 2 tablespoons ice cold water
    • 1 egg (beaten)
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

    Egg Filling

    • ¾ cups water
    • ⅓ cups sugar
    • 5 eggs
    • ½ cup evaporated milk
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

    Instructions
     

    Pastry

    • Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.
    • Place 1 cup flour, butter, and confectioner’s sugar in a mixing bowl.
    • Using a pastry cutter, blend butter, flour and sugar into a coarse crumbly mixture.
    • Add egg, vanilla extract, and ice cold water into the mixture, mix until it forms a dough. If the dough is too wet and sticks, add more flour a tablespoon at a time. If it is too try, add ice cold water a tablespoon at a time.
    • Roll out the dough to about ⅛ inch thick. Use a round cookie cutter, cut out 12 rounds. You can use a fluted cutter or gently press a fork into the edge for decoration. Place in the cupcake wrappers or straight into the cupcake pan.

    Egg Filling

    • In a sauce pan, heat water and sugar over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Let cool to room temperature.
    • In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs lightly. Add evaporated milk and vanilla. Beat until well combined. Strain into the sauce pan with cooled syrup. Mix.
    • Strain the egg mixture into each tart shell, taking care not to over fill them.
    • Bake the tarts in the oven at 375°F for about 15 - 20 minutes. until the filling rises and the crust is lightly brown.

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    1. Marilyn Lesniak

      January 07, 2020 at 4:19 pm

      Thank you for hosting! This is what I featured the week of 12-30 to 1-3 on my blog. On Tuesday morning was a Christmas Tree Pizza Pull Apart. Wednesday was Croissant French Toast with Strawberries . And wrapping up the Holidays was Slow Cooker Mushroom Barley Soup. Enjoy!

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