This recipe yield 21 tarts – 3 inch tarts
Ingredients
For Tart Shell
200 g cups all-purpose flour
25 g confectioners' sugar
100 g unsalted butter, diced (skip ¼ tsp salt if you use salted butter)
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons cold water
For The Filling
2 eggs
80 g white sugar
2 tablespoons milk
6 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Method
- In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, vanilla extract and salt together. Blend in butter with a pastry cutter until mixtures resemble coarse crumbs. Add 1 tablespoon of cold water at a time. Kneading well after each addition until all mixture form soft dough. Wrap with plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, milk, water and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Strain through a fine-mesh 2-3 times and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C.)
- Divide dough in half. Roll each half out to 1/8 inch thickness. Using a 3.5 inch (8.5 centimeter) fluted round cookie cutter, cut out 22 rounds. Press dough into lightly greased 3 inch tart pans.
- Pour the filling into prepared tart shells
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is set.