Desserts

BAKED VANILLA CUSTARD TART

Serves 6

½quantity Sweet Pastry (Page R8) 4 x 60g eggs

½cup castor sugar

1 tablespoon cornflour

1 ½ cups milk, warmed

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

½teaspoon cinnamon, ground

½teaspoon nutmeg, ground

1.Roll out sufficient pastry on a lightly floured board to line a 23cm flan pan. Do not prick the pastry. Place the flan pan onto a baking tray and blind bake* in a hot oven 200ºC for 10 – 15 minutes. Remove blind baking material and allow pastry to cool.

2.Place eggs and sugar in the small bowl and beat on Speed 3 until light and creamy.

3.Blend cornflour with milk and vanilla essence, then stir into egg mixture.

4.Carefully pour thickened milk mixture into the prepared pastry. Sprinkle with spices.

5.Bake in a hot oven 200ºC for 10 minutes.

6.Reduce temperature to 180ºC and bake for a further 20 minutes or until custard is set. Allow to cool before serving.

*Blind baking

Loosely cover the pastry with baking paper then pour in sufficient dried lentils or rice to hold the paper in place. This is to stop the pastry rising in the first baking. Retain the dried lentils or rice for future blind baking use.

CHOCOLATE ÉCLAIRS

1 quantity Choux Pastry (Page R8)

1 Quantity Cream Filling (Page R15) or whipped cream

1 Quantity Chocolate Glace icing (Page R15)

1.Place Choux Pastry mixture into a large piping bag fitted with large star pipe.

2.Pipe 10cm strips of mixture onto lightly greased oven trays that have been lightly sprinkled with water.

3.Bake in a moderately hot oven 200ºC for 30 minutes or until puffy and golden.

4.Reduce temperature to 120ºC and continue to bake for 10-15 minutes or until éclairs appear dry.

5.Turn out onto a rack and cool.

6.When cold, use a sharp knife to cut slits into one side of each éclair.

7.Fill with cream filling and drizzle tops with Chocolate Glace Icing.

R17

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Breville BEM200 manual Baked Vanilla Custard Tart, Chocolate Éclairs
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BEM200 specifications

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