Portunguese style custard tarts

As I said in my previous post, I have been working pretty hard of late and so to treat myself, I got my nails done with Shellac. Seriously, why haven't I done this before? It's perfect for a girl who works in TV and loves to cook. Normally my nails get ruined all the time and now I might stand a chance of even growing them.

Firstly a small G and T to get me in the cooking mood.

Back to the matter in hand: Portuguese style custard tarts. I've chosen to cook these little tarts this week as I had one at work the other day and it was delicious and Billy has never had one. I researched the recipe a bit and realise there is such a huge difference between each chef's recipe. Some have one egg, some have 6. So it was a difficult one to embark upon. I made up my own recipe based on a combination of Jamie Oliver's very easy recipe from his 30 minute meals and Jon Torode's method as well as a bit of my own artistic license.

Put the oven on 180 degrees to heat up first. Then take the puff pastry sheet and sprinkle in cinnamon. Then roll the sheet up so that you have a long sausage shape of pastry.

Cut into 12 even pieces

Push the pastry into the moulds of a muffin tin and place in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. You cold cover each tartlet with greaseproof paper and lentils. I didn't do this.

Instead, I pushed the pastry back into the moulds.

In the meantime, put all of your other ingredients in a mixing jug and I blended with a hand blender until the mixture was smooth.

pour into the pastry moulds and bake for 20-25 minutes.

I think these were really nice and very easy to make. I would like to experiment a bit more...I'd like to know why every recipe I looked at was so different and see which one works best. Let me know what you think anyway :)

Ingredients (which should make 12 tarts):
Jus' Roll all butter puff pastry sheet
1 tablespoon corn flour
120g golden caster sugar
5 egg yolks
280ml double cream
orange zest- use your judgement
vanilla essence
cinnamon