The golden-yellow egg tarts are crispy on the outside. When you bite into them, the egg custard is fragrant, sweet and glutinous, and the rich egg-flavored and creamy flavor is mouth-watering. Egg tarts are common desserts and pastries, especially "Portuguese egg tarts".There are many kinds of delicious egg tarts, let's take a look at which delicious egg tarts are available.


The method of egg tarts is simple. Put the cake skin into a small round pot-shaped cake mold, pour in the egg paste mixed with sugar and eggs, and then put it into the oven; the baked egg tart has a crispy outer layer. The inner layer is a sweet yellow curdled egg paste.


In the early days, the egg tarts in tea restaurants were relatively large, and a single egg tart could become an afternoon tea meal. Many restaurants in Hong Kong also include egg tarts (small egg tarts) in their dim sum. There are many kinds of delicious egg tarts, let's take a look at which delicious egg tarts are available.


1. Butter egg tart


Butter egg tarts, as the name suggests, exudes the aroma of butter. The tart crust of butter tarts is relatively smooth and complete, like a pot-shaped cookie. The tart crust of this type of egg tarts tastes a little like a cookie, so many people also call it a cookie crust.


2. Puff pastry tart


The pastry egg tart is made of thin layers of puff pastry, similar to the Puff Pastry of West Point; but because of the use of lard (Lard), the taste is rougher than the butter pastry. In addition, because the tart skin is thicker, the filling amount of the puff pastry egg tart is less than that of the butter egg tart.


In addition to the mainstream egg tarts that use sugar and eggs as the egg yolks, there are also variant egg tarts mixed with other ingredients, such as fresh milk tarts, ginger tarts, egg tarts, egg tarts with chocolate, and egg tarts with bird’s nest.


3. Portuguese egg tart


The Portuguese egg tart has a delicate and round tart crust, golden egg liquid, and a professional caramel ratio, making it a perfect egg tart. The crust of the Portuguese egg tarts tastes like freshly baked croissants. It is soft and crispy, with a rich filling and a milky fragrance that is sweet but not greasy.


In addition to the above three types of egg tarts, there are other types of egg tarts based on classification, but then again, although there are thousands of types of egg tarts, in the end, which one is delicious depends on your own taste.