INGREDIENTS:-
Pastry:
83g butter, chilled
150g high-ratio/cake flour
40g icing sugar
10g milk powder,
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
1 Grade C egg
Filling:
250g cream cheese
2 tbsp corn starch, sifted
60g icing sugar, sifted
50g evaporated milk
3 egg yolks
Blueberry filling
INSTRUTIONS:-
To prepare pastry:
1) Sift flour, icing sugar and milk powder together into a mixing bowl.
2) Rub in butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
3) Add in the egg and vanilla essence. Mix it until the pastry begins to form large lumps.
4) Press together gently with your fingers until the pastry forms a ball.
5) Chill pastry dough for about 30 minutes.
To prepare filling:
1) Beat sifted icing sugar and cream cheese until light, creamy and smooth (with no lumps of cheese in the mixture).
2) Add egg yolks one at a time. When finish with the yolks, add in the remaining ingredient, except blueberry filling, and blend well.
To prepare egg tarts:
1) Press some pastry evenly into tart mould. Trim the edges to remove excessive dough.
2) Prick base of each tart with a fork.
3) Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degC for 10 minutes.
4) Remove tart from oven and fill tart with about a little of cheese filling. Top with blueberry filling and fill up tart shell with more cheese filling to cover the blueberry filling.
5) Send back to a preheated oven at 180 degC for further 10 - 15 minutes.
6) Leave the tarts in moulds for 10 minutes before turning onto wire rack to cool.
NOTES:-
1) When making the pastry, size of the egg quite important. If wrong size is used, your dough will be wet. If that happens, add sifted cake flour, a little at a time till you can form your dough.
2) To make the "B" on the surface, take some cheese filling and add some coco powder and mix well. Pour mixture into a pipping/zip lock bag and pipe the letter onto the surface before sending it for baking.
[adapted recipe from Jo's Deli & Bakery]