chinese egg custard

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For the past week or so I've been brainstorming on projects in my kitchen.
 
So my first project....that I couldn't get off my mind Chinese Egg Custard! My mouth was drooling each time I think back the times I eat them at Dim Sum or Chinese bakeries. After researching and mixing recipes for a few days...I managed to find one that I can use.

 I've noticed that Dim Sum joints sells Pastry Puff Egg Tarts while Chinese Bakeries serves them in a foil cup like a pie custard.

Pastry Egg Tarts

Pie Crust like Tarts

The recipe I found for  the dough was quite simple. It's a lot of work to mix with your fingers, but I cheated and used my Kitchen Aid Mixer. I didn't have any tart shells so I used a muffin pan instead. As for the custard..OMG it was the hardest thing to figure out. All the recipes were in ML or Grams. I didn't have a problem using the conversion chart but the recipes that was given did not make any sense. For example, recipe calls for 80ML of evaporated Milk...that's about 2.75 oz...in the video it looked like almost a cup of liquid. Finally I found a recipe that made some sense. However, the custard was way too sweet! I had extra frozen puff pastry dough in the freezer and gave it a test!..haha it failed...big time!

Simple Recipe just calls for 2cups of flour, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 5 oz butter, & 1 egg.
As for the custard, I can't find the amount I wrote down on a post it note. There was evaporated milk, simple syrup, and egg yolks.

Strain the custard mix for no lumps~

I used too much simple syrup, causing it to be a very sweet custard.

Regular Egg Tarts

Mini Egg Tarts...can you spot the puff pastry tarts?

TADA~

 I went to bed and forgot to put away my egg tarts...luckily, I was able to share some with my friends :)
I think Egg Tarts are best to eat fresh everyday..i believe it gets soggy the next day.

happy cinco de mayo~ time for some ritas.
Later gators,
bmg