Individual custard and macaroon tartlets

12 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 Store-bought pie crusts; (packaged flat and folded) to make 12 individual pastry tart shells in ramekins
2 cups Heavy cream
1 cup Sugar
1 Vanilla bean; split in half
4 Egg yolks
12 smalls Coconut macaroons
1 cup Sweetened whipped cream
Fresh mint sprigs
Powdered sugar; in a shaker

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cut out 12 pastry rounds 3 inches larger than the diameter of the ramekins and pat into the small ramekins. Line the pastry with foil and weight down with dried beans, rice or pie weights and bake for 5 to 8 minutes or until pastry is light golden-brown. Remove the foil and beans and set ramekins aside.

In a sauce pot, combine the cream, sugar, and scraped vanilla bean. Bring the cream up to a simmer to dissolve the sugar. Simmer for about 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and discard the vanilla bean. In a mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks until frothy. Temper the cream into the yolks.

Place a macaroon in the center of each pie shell. Pour the custard into the shells. Place the ramekins in a warm water bath. Bake for 20 minutes or until the custard is set and the top is golden brown. Remove from the oven.

Serve cold. Garnish with the whipped cream, mint, and powdered sugar.

Recipe Source: EMERIL LIVE with Emeril Lagasse From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # EM-1A63 broadcast 10-20-1997) Downloaded from their Web-Site -

Formatted for MasterCook by Joe Comiskey, aka MR MAD - jpmd44a@...

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11-08-1997

Recipe by: Emeril Lagasse

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