Portuguese Tarts

Filling

4 Egg Yolks

½ cup Caster Sugar

2 Tablespoon Cornflour

1 cup Cream

½ cup milk

Zest from one lemon

2 Teaspoon vanilla extract

Pastry

2 sheets puff pastry

2 teaspoon cinnamon

¼ cup caster sugar

Whisk egg yolks, sugar, cornflour, cream and water in a medium pot. Add lemon zest and stir over medium heat until mixture just comes to the boil but do not let boil. Remove from heat and stir in Vanilla. Allow to cool

For the pastry combine cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle half over one of the pastry sheets. Cover with remaining sheet sprinkle with remaining cinnamon mixture. Roll pastry sheets into a log and cut into 12 equal portions.

Use a rolling pin to flatten the portions into approx. 10cm diameter circle. Press into greased muffin tin. Spoon in filling and bake in a preheated, 190C, oven for about 20 min. Remove from oven and let sit in tin for 5 minutes then place on cooling rack.