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Summer fruit custard tart

  • Hands-on time: 30 mins
  • Time to make: 55 mins, plus 30 mins chilling
  • Serving: 8 people (makes 1 large tart or 8 small tarts)
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 ¾ cups flour, plus 2 extra tablespoons, for rolling
  • ½ cup (115g) reduced-fat spread
  • 2 tablespoons soft brown sugar
  • Custard filling
  • 1 ½ cups skim milk
  • ¼ cup custard powder
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
  • Fruit topping
  • 8-10 strawberries, sliced
  • ½ cup raspberries or blueberries or cherries
  • 2 apricots or 1 peach or 1 nectarine
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 190°C. Base-line a flan dish with baking paper. Place flour in a bowl. Rub in spread to form breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar and enough water to make a soft dough. Roll out pastry on a floured surface, sized to line flan dish.

    2 Line flan dish, prick base and chill for 30 minutes. Bake blind (see tip) for 25 minutes until pastry is golden brown. Meanwhile, in a medium-sized bowl mix 5 tablespoons of the milk with custard powder and sugar to form a paste.

    3 Heat remaining milk with vanilla bean paste in a pan until almost boiling. Stir hot milk into custard paste. Return this mixture to pan and cook over a gentle heat, stirring, until thickened. Pour custard into pastry case.

    4 Arrange fruit on top of custard while still warm. Leave to set before serving.

    HFG tip

    • The pastry case can be kept for 1 day unfilled. Once filled with custard this tart is best served on the same day, within 4 hours of filling.
    • Baking blind: To bake pastry blind, line the tart case with pastry and leave to rest in the fridge for 30 or more minutes. Prick the base with a fork. Cover the pastry with baking paper. Add baking beans, dried chickpeas or uncooked rice to cover the base. Bake for 25 minutes at 190°C until the case is golden brown and the pastry base is dry.

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