Posts Tagged ‘custard’

 
Milk Tart Layer Cake

As a proper Afrikaans girl, I find complete comfort in the smell and flavour of cinnamon. I’m not sure why it is but most of our (Afrikaans) comfort foods has cinnamon as an ingredient. Pancakes (crepes) is just not the same if it doesn’t have a generous sprinkling of cinnamon-sugar in the centre. The same with melkkos. And of course, milk tart. Milk tart is for me, the ultimate. I love how the creamy, custardy filling rests ever-so-gently on the crust. And that sprinkling of cinnamon just adds perfection.    I decided to make this cake because I wanted to do something a bit different with the components of Milk…

Malva Pudding

I am often asked where my love (read: obsession) for food started. I have such an incredible amount of food-based memories and it’s hard to pick just one, but the memory that gives me the most joy is one involving my entire family on Sunday afternoons. I understand that Sunday lunches are a custom in many countries, but in South Africa, we’ve perfected the art. And in particular, the Afrikaners have left their mark with what is known as Boerekos (directly translated it means Farmer’s Food). When you say the word Boerekos, the first thing I think of is intensely comforting food prepared my grandmother. Our Sundays always involved us going to…

Milk Tart

Milktart is yet another one of those proudly South African favourites. And boy, it sure is a favourite in this household. However, this is not a traditional recipe for milktart, this one has a bit of a twist. Instead of using sugar to sweeten the ‘custard’, I used condensed milk. It adds a lovely creaminess as well as  really great flavour that you can only get from condensed milk. And you know something is good when a very loud Afrikaans family all go completely silent while eating it. And that’s exactly what happened when I served this as dessert last week. I made the pastry for the crust myself but…

 
 
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