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Coconut tarts (coconut tarts)

Small tartlets filled with a sweet coconut custard in a golden shortcrust pastry. They are very popular at celebrations and family gatherings in Belize.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. Mix the flour, salt and sugar, then rub in the cold butter with your fingertips until you get a coarse crumb.
  2. Add the cold water little by little and form a ball of dough. Let it rest for 30 minutes in the fridge.
  3. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and roll out the dough to line 6 tartlet tins.
  4. In a bowl, mix the coconut, sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla and nutmeg.
  5. Spoon the filling into the pastry cases and bake for 25 minutes, until the top is golden.
  6. Let them cool completely before removing from the tins.

Variations and tips

Jam version. Add a spoonful of apricot jam to the bottom of each tartlet before the coconut filling.

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Original Ecomely recipe.