Pastéis de Nata (Portuguese Egg Tarts)

Name: Pastéis de Nata (Portuguese Egg Tarts)
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 1½ (9½ by 9-inch) sheets, puff pastry, thawed; 1½ cups, whole milk; 1 cup (7 ounces; 198 grams), granulated sugar; ¾ cup, heavy cream; 2 (3-inch), strips lemon zest; ¼ cup (1¼ ounces; 35 grams), all-purpose flour; ½ teaspoon, table salt; 8 , large egg yolks; 1½ teaspoons, vanilla extract; , Confectioners' sugar; Ground, cinnamon

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Desserts or Baked Goods

Eggs

Tarts

The sweet, creamy vanilla- and lemon-scented custard filling and crisp pastry shell of petite Portuguese egg tarts leave many a tourist yearning for these iconic pastries upon returning home.

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from The Perfect Pie

SERVES12

TIME2¾ hours, plus 50 minutes chilling

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from The Perfect Pie

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The sweet, creamy vanilla- and lemon-scented custard filling and crisp pastry shell of petite Portuguese egg tarts leave many a tourist yearning for these iconic pastries upon returning home. For our take inspired by Portuguese–American ver...

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