Custard tart in pie maker

[judydawn]

I agree Kathryn, that amount is great for a large family.  I'll only be making 4 at a time probably unless I am having visitors or decide to share them around the neighbourhood.  I'm sure no-one would knock back a nice home made custard tart 

How many bases does one get from a batch of EDC shortcrust pastry tonydav?

[deedub]

Thanks tony, will have to try this!

[tonydav]

The EDC SC pastry recipe makes 8 tarts. So the simple answer is to simply halve the custard recipe. Makes 8 which is about perfect here.

I don't think they'd freeze well.

One further update:

For the last batch of 8 I did I heated the custard to 80 in the TMX before adding to the bases. This allowed me to add a bit more custard and still have them set before the base burned.

[judydawn]

Thanks for the update tonydav - I had intended making them today but unexpected visitors put paid to that.  One day next week perhaps now.

[tonydav]

Hope you enjoy them as much as my family did. Just remember the pastry "puffs" about 2x in the pie maker, so roll it nice and thin (has to be pretty thin anyway to make 8 bases from one mix!)

[cookie1]

Tony you seem to have ironed out all the problems. Thanks. I should give them a try but I know I would eat them all.

[trudy]

Well done Tonydav.  All your hard work has really payed off as they look great.

[Zada]

How did you get the custard yellow? Mines white :/

[tonydav]

Mine just went that colour.  But then my eggs were from our chooks who eat a lot of grass. Some of the eggs are almost red they're that orange.

[pumpkin pie]

Made these today, after a few oops (check out the oops post in chit chat, for what went wrong) They turned out great. Will be making them again. Thanks Tonydav.

[obbie]

I love custard tarts, I will try them, thanks..

[judydawn]

Finally remembered to give this recipe a go.  Made 1/2 quantity of the linked custard recipe and used a Pampas frozen shortcrust pastry sheet which made 4 tarts.  I was very happy with the results tonydav, thanks for your research to come up with a successful custard tart.  Not the lovely colour of yours but not much I could do about that.

[pumpkin pie]

Well done Judy, they look really good. I will be making another batch soon.