Easy Egg Tarts

Egg tart's one of my fav desserts in the morning when i have dim sum. Come to think bout it, its not only during dim sum sessions but also when i visit the bakery! My personal favourite would be the Portugese Egg Tarts. I'll definitely look for the recipe to try it out. 

Since this is my first attempt in bakin egg tarts, i'm gonna start of with the easy egg tarts recipe i came across earlier. 

What you need for these egg tarts are:

Filling
* 2 eggs
* 200ml milk
*1/4 cup castor sugar
*1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Dough
* 80gm butter
* 21/2 cups flour
* 2/3 cup water

You'll need to preheat oven to 160 degrees C and beat all the ingredients listed in the filling.  Next combine butter , flour and water to make the dough.

If you've muffin pans then butter it with a brush. Roll out the dough to approximately 3mm thin. Next, you'll need to cut rounds of dough with an upside-down  cup to fit halfway up the muffin holes. As for me , since i dont have any muffin pans at home, i resorted  to round aluminium foils for my dough to sit in.

Pour the egg mixture through a strainer into each dough- lined up foil/muffin,leavin bout 5mm of rim.  Bake for 15 minutes. Turn up heat to 175 degrees for the lower part of the oven. Bake for another 6 minutes. Since i was using my good old-fashion oven, i baked it for bout 20mins.

The egg tarts turn out pretty but the crust was rather hard, perhaps its due to my own oven or mayb its the way i was doin the dough. I wasnt very happy with how the crusted tasted like but i suppose its aint that bad for a first attempt.

Anyhow, i'm planning to try out some other recipes for the dough. Perhaps i'll try to search for Betty Crocker Pie Crust Mix for the crust the next time around.