This elegant tart celebrates the simple things in life – an abundance of floral, in-season strawberries, creamy Vanilla Bean custard and crumbly, buttery pastry. It’s the perfect special occasion tart but we can’t resist it for Sunday lunch either!

Prep:
45 min
Cook:
30 min
Serves:
6-8

Ingredients

Pastry

  1. 3/4 cup (110g) plain flour

  2. 1 1/2 tbsp icing sugar mixture

  3. 3 tsp custard powder

  4. 20g butter, softened

  5. 3 tbs cold water

Filling

  1. 2 tbs custard powder

  2. 1 1/2 cups (375ml) milk

  3. 1/4 cup (60ml/80g) Queen Pure Maple Syrup

  4. 2 tsp caster sugar

  5. 1 tsp Queen Vanilla Bean Paste

  6. 1 tsp orange zest

  7. 250g punnet Strawberries, hulled and sliced

Method - Pastry

  1. Step 1

    Combine flour, icing sugar and custard powder in a small bowl. Using your fingertips rub the margarine into the flour mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Using the blade of a knife, mix the water into the mixture to form a soft dough.

  2. Step 2

    Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth. Shape into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes.

  3. Step 3

    Roll out pastry to fit an 18cm round loose bottomed flan tin. Cover pastry with a large piece of baking paper, fill with baking weights and bake at 160C for 10 minutes, remove weights and paper, increase temperature to 180C (fan forced) and bake pastry for a further 10 minutes until lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool.

Method - Filling

  1. Step 1

    Combine custard powder, milk, maple syrup, sugar, vanilla and orange zest in a small saucepan. Stir over low heat for 10 minutes until mixture boils and thickens.

  2. Step 2

    Pour hot custard into cooled pastry shell and refrigerate until custard is loosely set and cool. Serve topped with fresh strawberries arranged in a pretty pattern.

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