Blueberry cheese tarts

Recipe for blueberry cheese tarts

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By thesmartcookiecook.com
A recipe of Blueberry cheese tarts. Read more below.

Pastry:

83g butter, chilled

150g high-ratio/cake flour

40g icing sugar

10g milk powder,

1/4 tsp vanilla essence

1 Grade C egg

Filling:

250g cream cheese

2 tbsp corn starch, sifted

60g icing sugar, sifted

50g evaporated milk

3 egg yolks

Blueberry filling

METHOD:

To prepare pastry:

1. Sift flour, icing sugar and milk powder together into a mixing bowl.

2. Rub in butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

3. Add in the egg and vanilla essence. Mix it until the pastry begins to form large lumps. Press together gently with your fingers until the pastry forms a ball.

4. Chill pastry dough for about 30 minutes.

To prepare filling:

1. Beat sifted icing sugar and cream cheese until light, creamy and smooth (with no lumps of cheese in the mixture).

2. Add egg yolks one at a time. When finish with the yolks, add in the remaining ingredient, except blueberry filling, and blend well.

To prepare egg tarts:

1. Press some pastry evenly into tart mould. Trim the edges to remove excessive dough. Prick base of each tart with a fork.

2. Fill tart with about a tablespoon of cheese filling.  Top with blueberry filling. Spoon another 1-2 tablespoon of cheese filling to cover the blueberry filling. The filling should fill 95% of a tart.

3. Bake in a preheated oven at 160-180 degC for 15-20 minutes.

4. Leave the tarts in moulds for 10 minutes before turning onto wire rack to cool.

NOTES:

1. I believe the cracking of my cheese filling was caused by too high temperature of the oven. We used top and bottom fire throughout the baking. We suggest you to try using both fire at the first 10 minutes and then turn to bottom fire only later.
2. Another reason of the cracking could be due to the expansion of the blueberry filling during baking. Try to reduce the amount of blueberry filling if the fire direction does not overcome the problem.
3. Note that heating characteristic of every oven varies. Please adjust temperature, heat direction and cooking time of your oven accordingly.
4. You can also use raspberry, strawberry or chocolate fillings to replace the blueberry filling.