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Cranberry Custard Tart

This cranberry custard tart is a perfect holiday dessert. Filled with a sweet cranberry custard, it makes for a beautiful and delicious ending.

My love for cranberry sauce continues here with my favourite cranberry custard tart. It is such a delicious tart that once you try it, it is sure to become your favourite too. The filling is slightly tart, slightly sweet, creamy, and oh so so delicious. Anyone that loves cranberries is in for a great treat with this tart.

The Ingredients for Cranberry Custard Tart

Four main ingredients are all it takes to make this super beautiful and delicious tart.

Ingredients
Ingredients

List of Ingredients for Cranberry Custard Tart:

  • Crust
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoons icing sugar (optional)
  • pinch of salt
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter (really cold)
  • 1 egg (separate the yellow and white)
  • 2 tablespoons of really cold water
  • Filling
  • 1 1/2 cup cranberry sauce (recipe here)
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1/4 unsalted butter
  • pinch of salt

The Cranberry Sauce

The first thing we need to do is start with making cranberry sauce. Of course, you can use a store bought sauce, but I prefer to make mine, especially since it’s so easy to do and you can use it for so many other things. Find my recipe here: Fresh Cranberry Sauce.

Cranberry sauceCranberry sauce ready to enjoy
Cranberry sauce ready to enjoy

Straining the Cranberry Sauce

Once we have the sauce ready, we need to smash the cranberries and strain the sauce.

  • Using a hand blender, blend the sauce until it’s mostly smooth.
  • Then, using a strainer or a sieve, strain it so you have a really smooth sauce.
  • Set it aside while you make the crust.
Cranberry custard tart

The Pie Crust for Cranberry Custard Tart

Let’s make the crust.

  • Add 2 cups of flour, 3 tablespoons of icing sugar, and a pinch of salt into a large mixing bowl.
  • Mix all three things together so they are evenly distributed.
  • Now using a sharp knife cut 3/4 cup of really cold butter into the bowl, and using a pastry cutter or a fork, mix the butter into the flour.
  • The flour will take on a pea-size consistency. Mix 1 egg yellow and 2 tablespoons of cold water into the flour and gently bring the flour together to form a dough.
  • Do not knead. Kneading will mean a hard crust.
Pie crust

Chilling the Crust Dough

Once the dough is ready, we need to chill it for a bit.

  • Place the dough into some plastic wrap and bring it together to form a disc.
  • Cover well with the wrap and place it in the fridge. Let it sit there for about an hour or so.
  • Once ready, remove it from the fridge, and using a rolling pin, roll it into a circular shape large enough to fit your pie dish.
  • Using the rolling pin, lift the rolled out pie crust and place it into the pie dish.
  • Using your hands, push it against the walls of the dish and into the grooves.
  • Cut off the excess crust from the top and place the pie dish in the freezer for about 1/2 an hour.

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Baking the Pie Shell

In order to have a crisp pie shell, we need to bake it before filling it.

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Remove the pie crust from the freezer and dock it using a fork, so that it doesn’t get air bubbles in it. Docking it will help ensure the crust is crisp.
  • Bake the empty pie crust for about 20 minutes or until it just starts to brown.
  • Remove the crust from the oven, however, do not turn the oven off.
  • Remember that egg white and yellows we had separated earlier? Whip the whites and using a cooking brush, and spread it all over the crust.
  • Now return the crust back to the oven and bake it for another 10 minutes. Remove it and let it cool down completely.
Cranberry custard tart

The Cranberry Custard Pie Filling

Now on to making the custard for the filling.

  • In a medium sized pan, heat the cranberry sauce so it’s hot enough, but not boiling yet.
  • While that is happening, add 2 eggs and two more egg yellows into a bowl.
  • Whip them until they are pale yellow in colour.
Tempered egg whites

Tempering the Eggs

Once the cranberry sauce has heated up enough, we will add the eggs to the sauce to make a custard. But before we can do that, we need to temper the eggs.

  • What tempering means is that we need to bring the temperature of the eggs up to the temperature of the sauce.
  • If we add cold eggs to the sauce, the eggs will get scrambled and the custard will go bad.
  • Pour about a quarter a cup of the hot cranberry sauce into the eggs and mix the sauce into the eggs.
  • This will bring the temperature of the eggs up and then we can add them to the pan with the sauce.
Cranberry custard

Finishing the Cranberry Custard

Once the eggs have been tempered, we can add them to the remaining cranberry sauce.

  • Add the tempered eggs to the pan and mix them in well.
  • Cook the eggs and cranberry mixture for about 10 minutes to allow the custard to thicken.
  • Once it has thickened enough, turn the heat off and allow it to cool down almost completely. I tend to cover the custard with a plastic wrap to prevent it from forming a crust.
  • Using a serving spoon or a ladle, spoon the custard into the prebaked and cooled crust.
  • Place it in the fridge for at least 2-4 hours to allow the custard to set.
Cranberry custard tart

Serving Suggestion

Once the Cranberry Custard Tart has cooled down, remove from the fridge and allow it to sit on the counter for at least 1/2 an hour. To serve:

  • sprinkle with some roasted cracked pistachios
  • and white chocolate.
  • I love to serve mine with a dollop of fresh whipped cream or
  • a dollop of vanilla ice cream.
  • Enjoy with a side of fresh coffee.

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Cranberry Custard Tart

Course: DessertCuisine: CanadianDifficulty: Easy
Servings

8

servings
Prep time

10

minutes
Cooking time

15

minutes
Calories

377

kcal
Resting time

120

minutes
Total time

2

hours 

25

minutes

This cranberry custard tart is a perfect holiday dessert. Filled with a sweet cranberry custard, it makes for a beautiful and delicious ending.

Ingredients

  • Crust
  • 2 cups all purpose flour

  • 3 tablespoons icing sugar (optional)

  • pinch of salt

  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter (really cold)

  • 1 egg (yellow and white separated)

  • 2 tablespoons of really cold water

  • Filling
  • 1 1/2 cup cranberry sauce (recipe here)

  • 2 eggs

  • 2 egg yolks

  • 1/4 unsalted butter

  • pinch of salt

Directions

  • Crust
  • Mix the flour, icing sugar, and salt in a big mixing bowl.
  • Mix the egg yellow and water in a small bowl and set aside.
  • Cut the really cold butter into cubes and add it to the bowl. Using a pastry cutter or a fork, cut the butter into the flour and mix until you have pea sized bits of flour.
  • Add the egg yellow and water mix to the bowl and bring the flour together to form a rough dough. DO NOT knead the flour.
  • Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and form a disc. Place it in the fridge to rest for about half an hour or so.
  • Once rested, remove the dough from the fridge, and using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a circular shape that will fit your pie dish.
  • Place the pie dish in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Remove it from the freezer and using a fork, dock the pie.
  • Bake it for about 20 minutes and then remove it from the oven.
  • Whip the egg white and using a baking brush, brush the egg white all over the pie crust and return it to the oven. Bake for a further 10 minutes and then remove it from the oven and allow it to rest and cool down completely.
  • Filling
  • Take the cranberry sauce and using a hand blender, blend the sauce into a smooth consistency.
  • Using a sieve, strain the sauce into a pan and heat it so it’s almost boiled.
  • Meanwhile, whip the eggs (the whole eggs and egg yellows) until you get a pale yellowish colour.
  • Once the sauce is hot, temper the eggs. Using a serving spoon or a ladle, pour about 1/4 cup of the sauce into the bowl of whipped eggs and mix well.
  • Immediately pour the eggs into the pan of sauce and mix so that the eggs get incorporated into the sauce.
  • Cook the cranberry custard for about 10 minutes or so to allow it to thicken well and then take the pan off the heat.
  • Cool the custard completely and then pour it into the cooled down prebaked crust.
  • Cover the tart with plastic wrap and place it in the fridge to set for 2-4 hours.
  • Remove from the fridge up to half an hour before serving.

How do I make Cranberry Custard?

Cranberry custard is made with milk, eggs, and premade strained cranberry sauce. Heat the sauce so it’s warm, but not hot. Beat the eggs, and ‘temper’ them by adding some of the warm sauce to it. Add the eggs to the sauce and cook for about 8-10 minutes to allow it to thicken.

Why is my custard not thickening?

Generally, the custard will thicken once the eggs are cooked enough. It continues to thicken as it cools down, so once the custard has had enough time to cool down completely it should thicken. You will know the custard is ready when you can draw a clean line through it on the back of a spoon.

How do you set custard?

The easiest way to set your custard is to allow it to cool enough once it’s cooked. If you want it to set it properly, put it in the fridge for about an hour.

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