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Makes:
36
Tamara West
By
Warren Elwin
Food writer
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This custard pie recipe makes about 36 mini-muffin pan pies or six 12cm pies.
Ingredients
| 1 sheet | Sweet shortcrust pastry, thawed (Main) |
| 5 | Eggs |
| ½ cup | Caster sugar |
| ¼ tsp | Salt |
| ½ | Vanilla pods |
| 1 ½ cups | Milk |
| 1 cup | Cream |
| 1 pinch | Nutmeg, freshly grated, or ground cinnamon |
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Directions
- Heat oven to 200C.
- Press out sweet shortcrust pastry on a floured surface. Using cookie cutters, cut pastry rounds to fit your pans.
- Gently press pastry into pans, and rest in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Beat eggs, sugar, salt and the scraped seeds from the vanilla pod until smooth.
- Whisk in milk and cream. Pour mixture into pastry shells, top with nutmeg or cinnamon.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until the custards are wobbly but firm in the middle.
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