2nd bake for 2023 🙂
I have made this before from a cookbook I bought in Portugal many years ago. As I’m having fun with baking this year, and that means, baking recipes from my cookbooks, I thought what better way to spend a new years day than making flaky pastry from scratch! It sounds hard, but really, it’s just flour and water mixed into a dough, then add a poultice of butter to the dough three times to form the layers. Now that’s gotta be fun. And here is the recipe btw, right here on this blog under Recipes. If you have not eaten a Pastel de Nata, (Portuguese custard tart) then I would highly recommend them.
The custard is not difficult to make. Just combine all the ingredients, mix and heat, then add to the pastry cases and cook at 220C. Despite the hard work and fluffing around with pastry, I am ecstatic to have Pasteís de Nata in the house, to eat with a nice cup of tea, or even better, for breakfast.
