Gloverly Cupcakes

Last week was pastry week on the bake off and I really don’t make much pastry as it’s very hard to make gluten free for Rich to eat so I just tend to avoid it. So I was looking forward to the challenge and eating 12 custard tarts all to myself! Click 

Paul’s recipe can be found here. The pastry was actually very straight forward and easy to fit in around all the other jobs I had to do as there were a few short stages and then it kept having to go back in the fridge to be chilled. The custard on the other hand was the strangest custard I have ever made! I certainly wouldn’t usually mix flour with milk and heat it till it’s thick and then make a sugar syrup, whisk the two together and then pour over the egg yolks, very strange! But I tried a bit and it tasted ok.

The hardest part of the challenge was shaping the pastry to put into the muffin tin. I had a go with one and managed to do it, but it took so long that I decided to cheat for the rest and I rolled them flat with a rolling pin to make a large circle which I then put into the muffin tin – it seemed to work ok.

Once they were done I put them back in the fridge to chill again before filling them with the strange custard and baking them. Luckily they seemed to work well and the smell was amazing – yummy buttery pastry! I couldn’t wait for them to cool down to try one, so had one while it was still warm and it tasted really good. Not sure I’ll have the need to make them again and probably won’t fancy baking them again any time soon by the time I’ve eaten all 12!