Traditional South African Dessert: Milk Tart !!

A real South African favourite

Posted by Tara Gypsy Apples

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You will find milk tart (Melktert in Afrikaans) at every bake sale, fete, market, church fair, home industries and at any afternoon tea party and family gatherings.
It's a well loved dessert and is easy to make and delicious to eat!

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You Will Need (8 things)

  • Butter
  • Eggs
  • Milk
  • Cake Flour
  • Sugar
  • Vanilla Essence
  • Corn Flour
  • Baking Powder

Steps (16 steps, 90 minutes)

  1. 1

    Gather all your ingredients to make the base

    62ml sugar
    250ml cake flour
    62ml butter
    1 egg
    5ml baking powder
    2,5ml vanilla essence

  2. 2

    Get the egg and vanilla essence ready

  3. 3

    Sift all the dry ingredients together

  4. 4

    Melt the butter and sugar together
    Take it off the heat
    Add the egg and vanilla - stir quickly to combine so you don't end up with scrambled eggs

  5. 5

    Add the sifted dry ingredients

  6. 6

    You should end up with a soft dough

  7. 7

    Press the dough into an oven safe pie dish and bake for 10 minutes at 180C

  8. 8

    Gather the ingredients to make the filling
    (this is enough for 2 tarts)

    1 litre milk
    25ml butter
    250ml sugar
    50ml cake flour
    50ml corn flour
    salt
    4 eggs, seperated
    10ml vanilla essence

  9. 9

    Mix a small amount of the milk with the flour, corn flour and egg yolks

  10. 10

    Heat the sugar, milk and butter.
    Slowly add the boiling milk to the egg/flour mixture

  11. 11

    Return the combined mixtures to the stove and stir continuously until thickened
    Add vanilla essence

  12. 12

    Stiffly beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt
    Fold into the thickened milk mixture

  13. 13

    Pour into the pie crust

  14. 14

    As an alternative to the traditional pie crust, you can make a biscuit base by combining crushed biscuits with melted butter

  15. 15

    Sprinkle with cinnamon

  16. 16

    Invite your friends over for tea and use the word" LEKKER" a lot (South African for very/good/delicious)
    ie. that melktert was lekker!
    I'm lekker full!

    pronounced: la-ker (roll your 'r')

    Enjoy :)