Australian Neenish Tarts .

Name: How to cook Australian Neenish Tarts . - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

ladybird

Australian Neenish Tarts .

if you have a sweet tooth you'll love these . :-)

Ingredient

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Pie Crust : preheat oven to 180°C / 360°F and grease 18 foil pastry cases .

* Step 2

Using an electric mixer , in a bowl cream the butter and sugar together then add the egg until combined , now fold in the two sifted flours till combined and forms a dough , then knead the dough until smooth . roll out pastry on a lightly floured surface to about 1cm thickness . now cut out 18 circles approximately 6-7cm rounds and line each prepared foil casing with pastry rounds to form pastry shells .

* Step 3

blind bake for 15 minutes or until golden . remove from oven and let cool and move to wire rack to cool till needed to fill .

* Step 4

Filling Mixture : Blend the flour and milk together in a pan until smooth and stir over medium heat for about 2 minutes until the mixture boils and thickens , remove from the heat and quickly stir in the egg yolks until smooth , cover with plastic wrap and let cool . in a separate bowl using electric mixer , beat butter , sugar and vanilla until light and creamy then add the egg mixture gradually and beat until smooth .

* Step 5

Spoon mixture evenly into premade pastry shells and smooth out tops .

* Step 6

Icing Mixture : combine the sugar and milk in a heat proof bowl and place bowl over pan of simmering water and stir until smooth and glossy , remove from heat and place half the icing Mixture into a separate bowl and add the cocoa to one of the bowls and stir till smooth , add a little extra milk if needed .

* Step 7

Icing Tarts : using a flat bladed knife spread the pink icing over half of each tart , starting from the center and making a line with the icing and then pushing the icing out to the edges of the tart , allow to set and repeat with the chocolate or white icing . let set , serve and enjoy . :-) .

* Step 8

NOTE : in step 4 , after you cream the butter and sugar and gradually add the egg mix , it may look as if you have curdled it , don't worry you haven't , just keep mixing and you will soon see it become smooth and creamy .

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Tag

Pie crust softened butter caster sugar Egg selfraising flour - sifted Plain flour (sifted) Filling milk egg yolks butter vanilla essence icing: icing sugar, sifted cocoa powder little extra milk

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