For this month’s Baking Eggless Challenge I selected Butter Tarts from Joy of baking. These have a crispy and flaky pastry base with nutty filling. The filling actually consists of egg, butter and sugar along with nuts. The challenge was to replace the eggs from the filling but still have a nice soft filling. So I used bread slices as a substitute for eggs and it came out very nice. The filling was soft with nice crunch from the nuts. You can use any nut of your choice. I used walnuts because it is my favourite nut. The only mistake I did was I overfilled some of the tart bases so that the filling came out of the shells. So next time I will be very careful in filling. The tart base was so flaky and crispy but the inside was soft because of the filling. It was a great experience to try it out and relish it. K and Sruti both liked it. SO I can say that I succeeded in the experiment.
Ingredients:
Eggless Butter Tarts
Ingredients
For The Short Crust Pastry
- Flour-1 1/4cups
- Salt-1/4tsp
- Sugar-1tbs
- Cold Unsalted Butter-1/2cup
- Ice water-1/8-1/4cup
For The Filling
- Butter-1/3cup
- Light Brown Sugar-1cup
- Bread Slices-3 remove the sides
- Milk-1/2cup
- Vanilla Essence-1tsp
- Walnuts-1/2cup
Instructions
For The Short Crust Pastry
- 1. Mix flour and salt in a bowl.
- 2. Cut butter into cubes and add it to the flour.
- 3. Rub with your fingers and prepare a crumbly flour.
- 4. Add water little by little and bring the dough together. Do not add more water.
- 5. Knead and cover the dough in a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
For The Filling
- 1. In a bow, beat butter and sugar until creamy.
- 2. In a mixer grind bread slices along with 1/8cup of milk to a smooth paste.
- 3. Add the remaining milk and mix.
- 4. Add this milk mixture to the butter sugar and whisk well.
- 5. Add in the essence and chopped nuts.
- 6. Keep it aside.
Arranging And Baking The Tarts
- 1. Preheat oven to 190C.
- 2. Remove dough from fridge and let it sit on counter for 5minutes.
- 3. Dust the counter and place the dough on it.
- 4. Carefully roll it out into a thin circle.
- 5. Cut it into 10cm rounds using a biscuit cutter.
- 6. Grease a muffin tin and place the rounds inside the cases.
- 7. Fill each base with the filling to 3/4th.
- 8. Bake until the base is golden in colour.
- 9. Remove from oven and let it cool completely before removing it from the pan.
- 10. Gently remove from the pan using a sharp knife.
- 11. Serve and Enjoy.
These look so cute and gorgeous!
They look wonderful.
Wow they just look like the store bought…. Substituting bread for egg is really a innovative idea… Great dear …
Cute and pretty tarts !! wonderful !!
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The tarts look delicious…
tarts are super cute gayatri!!
Very creative idea of using bread as egg substitute. The tarts are looking fabulous. Super Gayathri!!!
These look super cool 🙂
Looks so perfect…yummy looking
Fantastic, unfortunately i didnt get that dark colour filling,may be coz of the custard powder i went for..Yours looks super irresistible Gayathri..
I love the colour these tarts have.. absolutely delicious!
tempting n grt clicks.
Wow! Innovative use of bread to substitute eggs.. I have given this month’s challenge a miss.:-(. Looking forward to the next challenge
Very yummy and nice substituting egg with bread..
Wow.. Looks super cute and tempting.. awesome shots too.. 🙂
loved the challenge quite a bit.. we loved it.. Bread crumbs.. nice..:)
Looks delicious!!!! i will be making this weekend will be posting b4 5th!!!
Looks so very perfect, with beautiful clicks, They look so cute, Now I need to try this version, substituting bread is such a good idea, I have posted mine just now, Enjoyed baking the tarts.., looking forward to the next one, thanks Gayatri for the challenge dear…
Gayathri, very nice to go through your website. Gives a lot of hope for bakers who prefer eggless. Can I ask how do you measure 1/2 cup of unsalted butter ? We get nandini butter in a 1/2 kg rectangle. how do you cut the cold butter and make sure its 1/2 cup. Do you measure in gms ?
Smitha, 1/2 cup butter measures 113 gm. So just cut it out.
Thanks for this wonderful dish…. Can we use different veggies for the filling
You can use a savoury filling for this.