By Ina Paarman
One of the best milk tart recipes! Smooth and creamy. The combination with apple makes
it exceptional and not too sweet. I am addicted to this. On a practical note, one box of Vanilla Cake is enough for three Milktarts. The half a cup of Vanilla Cake dry mix that is left
over, makes 3 cups of delicious custard.
You will need:
Milk tart
2 cups (500ml) full cream milk
1 stick of cinnamon, broken up into long splinters
4T (60ml) butter
3 extra large eggs, seperated
1 cup (250ml) Ina Paarman's Vanilla Cake Mix
1t (5ml) almond essence
Apple base
4 -5 Pink Lady or Golden Delicious apples, peeled
and cut into small wedges
½ cup (125ml) apple juice
Cinnamon sugar topping
3T (45ml) sugar
1 t (5ml) ground cinnamon
Optional Garnish
dried apple slices
¼ cup (50g) sugar
¼ cup (60ml) water
10 paper thin centre slices of apple (select from
sliced apple)
Method
To give this crustless milk tart flavour and body we have incorporated some of our dry Vanilla Cake Mix. Refrigerate the remaining dry mix because you are bound to use this recipe again and again!
Bring the milk and broken cinnamon just to the boil.
Cover, remove from the heat, leave to draw for 20 minutes and add the butter. Cook the apples in apple juice
for about 15 minutes. Dish it into a buttered deep 22cm or regular 24cm pie dish and leave to cool. Mix the
sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle 1 T of the cinnamon sugar over the apples.
Adjust the oven rack to one slot below the middle position. Preheat oven to 180´C.
Remove the cinnamon pieces from the milk. Separate the eggs. Add a little of the warm milk to the yolks
while beating with a balloon whisk. Return egg mixture to the pot and then beat in the Vanilla Cake Mix. Add
almond essence. Keep stirring over medium heat with a wire whisk just until the mixture starts to thicken on
the bottom of the pot, immediately remove it from the heat and keep stirring, away from any heat, until the
consistency is like a thickish yoghurt, it may form lumps, just keep beating with whisk away from heat. Leave
to cool slightly.