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Kitchen

Julie Goodwin's mini caramel tarts

Turn a can of condensed milk and golden syrup into these decadent mini caramel tarts, topped with dark chocolate.

Julie Goodwin's mini caramel tarts
Ingredients
  • 3 sheets shortcrust pastry, just thawed
  • 395g can sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 tablespoons golden syrup
  • 40g butter, chopped
  • 100g dark chocolate melts
Method · 60 min
  1. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease a 12-hole cupcake pan or 12-hole (⅓ cup/80ml) muffin pan.
  2. Using a 9cm cutter, cut four rounds from each sheet of pastry. Press pastry evenly into the bases of prepared pan holes. Line pastry with baking paper; add a few pastry weights to each. Bakefor about 12-15 minutes or until golden. Remove paper and weights.
  3. Meanwhile, stir condensed milk, syrup and butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes or until mixture is light golden brown. Spoon mixture evenly into the pastry cases. Bake for a further 15 minutes or until browned. Transfer tarts to a wire rack to cool.
  4. When tarts are cooled, melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a small saucepan of simmering water until melted. Cool, stirring occasionally, until thickened. Spoon chocolate onto tarts.

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease a 12-hole cupcake pan or 12-hole (⅓ cup/80ml) muffin pan.

Using a 9cm cutter, cut four rounds from each sheet of pastry. Press pastry evenly into the bases of prepared pan holes.

Line pastry with baking paper; add a few pastry weights to each. Bake

for about 12-15 minutes or until golden. Remove paper and weights. Meanwhile, stir condensed milk, syrup and butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes or until mixture is light golden brown.

Spoon mixture evenly into the pastry cases. Bake for a further 15 minutes or until browned. Transfer tarts to a wire rack to cool.

When tarts are cooled, melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a small saucepan of simmering water until melted. Cool, stirring occasionally, until thickened.

Spoon chocolate onto tarts.

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