South African Milk Tart Recipe By Simply Delicious Food

Milk tart with creamy filling and a homemade crust is a South African classic. Perfect as dessert or served for tea time.

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.
For the crust
5 ½ cups flour
½ cup cold butter cubed
1 egg yolk
1-2 tbsp ice water
For the filling
2 cups milk
5 egg yolks
¾ cup sugar
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp salted butter (alternatively use unsalted butter and 1/2 tsp salt)
pinch of nutmeg
Ingredients
For the crust
5 ½ cups flour
½ cup cold butter cubed
1 egg yolk
1-2 tbsp ice water
For the filling
2 cups milk
5 egg yolks
¾ cup sugar
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp salted butter (alternatively use unsalted butter and 1/2 tsp salt)
pinch of nutmeg
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