What is milk tart?
Milk tart (or Melk Tert) is a South African dessert pie. A sweet pastry crust is filled with a custard filling and topped with a generous dusting of cinnamon. Some milk tart recipes call for the custard to be baked but my favorite version is unbaked custard gently flavored with almond extract, vanilla and nutmeg set in a flaky pie crust. If you love custard-based pies, you will LOVE milk tart.
Ingredients Needed
Flour. Icing/Powdered sugar. Cold butter. I used salted butter but unsalted butter can be substituted. Ice water. Milk. It’s important to use whole milk or full fat milk in this recipe. Cream. Heavy/Whipping cream. Egg yolks. Cornstarch. Flour. Cake or all purpose flour. Sugar. Almond extract. Vanilla extract. Nutmeg. Cinnamon.
How to make milk tart
Making ahead and freezing
South African recipes
Pie recipes
