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Baking Egg Tarts

Mint
Jan 22, 2017
2 min read

I baked some Pasteis De Nata AKA Portugese Egg Tarts for breakfast today. I was kind of scared to make the puff pastry dough, because to me Pasteis De Nata is trickier to make than Hong Kong egg tarts. There are two types of dough for making egg tarts: puff pastry dough and regular pastry dough (regular pastry dough doesn't puff up like puff pastry and are more cookie like). Since I'm making Pasteis De Nata from scratch, the dough is going to be the trickiest part to make. To skip all the hassle of making traditional puff pastry, I followed Gemma Stafford's shortcut puff pastry recipe instead. Her puff pastry recipe is easy, amazing, and really tasty, but unfortunately, it's not a Pasteis De Nata kind of puff pastry dough. The egg tarts' crust were flaky but not puffy enough, so next time I'll just make puff pastry the traditional way. If I am going to make any other kinds of pastries next time though, I'm definitely still going to used Gemma's recipe. I'll post her puff pastry recipe below.

Anyways, after cooking and whisking the syrup and egg mixture together, I cut the dough into individual pieces, pressed them into muffin tins, poured the custard mixture in, and finally put them in the oven to bake. The egg tarts took longer to bake than I expected, but it turned out pretty well. I was surprised that my Pasteis De Natas did not fail, looking ugly, but actually looking pretty well. Once the egg tarts came out of the oven they smelled amazing! Of course, even though the recipe always tells you to wait and let them chill, I never have the patience and end up burning my tongue eating them in the end. Don't judge me, I know everyone has done the same thing at least once in their life, secretly or not.

Overall, it was really fun to make these portugese egg tarts, even though it took longer to make than I expected. I will definitely make these again, but I might change up the recipe a little and make it my own. Maybe I'll even add ube into my custard mixture next time and make some Ube Portugese Egg Tarts! What do you think? If you would like me to make a recipe and video for Ube Portugese Egg Tarts, comment below and let me know.

Here's a picture of how my Pasteis De Natas turned out: