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A real South African favourite
You will find milk tart (Melktert in Afrikaans) at every bake sale, fete, market, church fair, home industries and at any afternoon tea party and family gatherings.
It's a well loved dessert and is easy to make and delicious to eat!

Posted by Tara Gypsy Apples from Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa • Published 20th September 2016 • See Tara Gypsy Apples's 30 projects »

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Step 1
Gather all your ingredients to make the base

62ml sugar
250ml cake flour
62ml butter
1 egg
5ml baking powder
2,5ml vanilla essence
Step 2
Get the egg and vanilla essence ready
Step 3
Sift all the dry ingredients together
Step 4
Melt the butter and sugar together
Take it off the heat
Add the egg and vanilla - stir quickly to combine so you don't end up with scrambled eggs
Step 5
Add the sifted dry ingredients
Step 6
You should end up with a soft dough
Step 7
Press the dough into an oven safe pie dish and bake for 10 minutes at 180C
Step 8
Gather the ingredients to make the filling
(this is enough for 2 tarts)

1 litre milk
25ml butter
250ml sugar
50ml cake flour
50ml corn flour
salt
4 eggs, seperated
10ml vanilla essence
Step 9
Mix a small amount of the milk with the flour, corn flour and egg yolks
Step 10
Heat the sugar, milk and butter.
Slowly add the boiling milk to the egg/flour mixture
Step 11
Return the combined mixtures to the stove and stir continuously until thickened
Add vanilla essence
Step 12
Stiffly beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt
Fold into the thickened milk mixture
Step 13
Pour into the pie crust
Step 14
As an alternative to the traditional pie crust, you can make a biscuit base by combining crushed biscuits with melted butter
Step 15
Sprinkle with cinnamon
Step 16
Invite your friends over for tea and use the word" LEKKER" a lot (South African for very/good/delicious)
ie. that melktert was lekker!
I'm lekker full!

pronounced: la-ker (roll your 'r')

Enjoy :)