When I visited Lisbon last autumn I was happily surprised about the wonderful portuguese cakes, pies and cookies they made. I´m not sure if it´s only me who didn´t know that they have amazing baked treats there, maybe I didn´t notice because they´re not as famous as french cuisine as an example. Well anyways beside s all those goodies, I absolutely fell in love with pasteis de nata.
Ingredients:
- 1 roll of ready made puff pastry
- 1/2 l milk
- 200g sugar
- 30g cornstarch
- 2 tbs. butter
- 1 egg
- 3 egg yolks
- pulp of one vanilla bean
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- a pinch of salt
Roll out ready made puff pastry dough. Cut out circles using a cookie cutter or a cup just the size of a muffin pan. Lay each circle into your muffin pan to form a little pie shell.
Prepare Filling
Bring milk, butter and vanilla pulp to a boil. Then remove from heat and fold in cornstarch, salt and sugar using a whisk. Stir constantly until thickened and cooled out a little. Add egg and egg yolks until well incorporated.
Now your custard is ready and you can spoon it into your pie shells (2-3 tbs up to the rim).
Bake in oven for about 15 minutes until puff pastry turns golden brown. (oven temperature 175°C)
In my opinion pastes de bata taste best freshly baken and still warm, so I only let them cool out for a couple of minutes. You can also freeze them and enjoy them later.
Enjoy!
Nadja
cause baking makes happy 
These are yummy! I’ve never tried one but my husband has always talked about it! Will have to make them soon. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you Dimple! Your husband knows well, they really are amazing (: Hope you will love them to (:
These look delicious!
Thank you (:
Luckily I cannot get hold of these easily because I would be eating them all the time.
Haha well I definitely understand that! I´d probably do the same if I was alone and nobody else would eat them. (;
Love those candlelight photos.
Thank you Janet (: Almost a little christmas flair already (;
the Portuguese immigrants, that came to Venezuela after the war in Europe run all the bakeries there. They introduced Venezuela to all those tasty and beautiful treats, very well influenced by french pastry and french bread making. If there’s is something a miss about Venezuela, it’s a bakery, there’s one every block!
sounds amazing. I would love to have a portuguese bakery in vienna (:
Never had these before, but they look delicious!
I´d try them if I were you (; They´re definitely worth it!
Looks yummy!
Thank you 😀
So, where is the recipe? Last year, a friend of mine went to Portugal and sent me a photo saying, it is one of the best pastries she ever had. I was going to look for it’s recipe and never did. Do you have a recipe for it?
Thank you for letting me know Fae. I actually attached it, there but must have been a problem showing it. Now it´s working! I hope you´ll love them as much as i do! xx
Thank you, thank you, Nadja! 😀
Thanks for sharing the recipe & gorgeous photos. I am lucky enough to live in a Portuguese neighbourhood so there is a ready supply of these. I often take a box with me to morning client meetings and there is never one left over! Definitely worth seeking out…
yummy would love to be able to get them in a bakery once in a while too. Don´t get to make them that often (:
Oh, I love Pastėis de Nata – already made them a dozen times ever since you first posted the recipe a few months back 🙂
Oh I´m so very happy to hear that. This time I added a little cinnamon cause I used another recipe and they tasted more original (:
Cinnamon is always a good idea – need to try the new version asap 🙂
Yum!! I always wanted to know how to make these!! I love them soooo much! 😉 Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Well then I am happy you found my recipe. I hope you´ll love it (:
Mmmm, I love these, have only tried making them once and they were a spectacular failure… I’m going to try again sometime having seen your recipe!
Oh well I hope this recipe will work out(: I think it´s very easy and it works for me very well! xx