Forget the beef…where’s the tart?

So when I was reading through Once Upon a Tart the other day looking for a fresh fruit tart to make I ran across a baked lemon tart. I knew that was not what I wanted to make but I was intrigued by the part in the paragraph that said if you had extra custard left over, just put them in ramekins and bake them off. Yum I thought. One problem though, no lemons. But oranges, I always have oranges. Instead of even bothering with the tart part at all I just decided to make the custard and bake those. I originally had the idea of doing a deconstructed tart with the inside in the ramekin and the outside just a little tart cookie. Which I tried, and didn't really like(apparently I like something in my tart dough...not just beside it), so I scraped that idea and just stuck with the custard. What I got was something similar to flan. A little more eggy than I expected, yet still quite yummy. If I were to do it all over again, I would have bake it in a water bath, which I came really close to … [Read more...]

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