Dessert

Strawberry Vanilla Cream Tart from Scratch

Prep35 min
Cook23 min
Total58 min
Serves8
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Method

Make it happen

  1. 01

    Make pastry from flour, butter, icing sugar, first yolk and water. Chill 20 minutes; roll into a 23 cm tart tin.

  2. 02

    Heat oven to 180°C fan. Blind-bake 15 minutes with baking beans then 8 minutes without; cool completely.

  3. 03

    Heat milk. Whisk remaining yolks with sugar and cornflour, pour in warm milk slowly, then return to pan and whisk gently until very thick. Stir vanilla in and cool with cling film touching the surface.

  4. 04

    Spoon cool custard into pastry and arrange strawberry halves over it. Chill 1 hour before serving.