A few weeks spent in France this summer got me inspired to give the classic French Flan Tart a go. This recipe, that I wrote down a while ago, proved to be super simple and really very tasty! And seriously, don’t you think it looks just like the ones in a French bakery? Here’s the recipe:

For the dough:

• 230g flour
• 100g sugar
• 90g butter, room temperature
• 1 tblsp vegetable oil
• 1 egg

For the filling:

• 30g flour
• 125g sugar
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar (or 1 tsp vanilla essence, or scrape out the seeds from one vanilla bean)
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 liter boiling milk

Pre-heat the oven to 180 C.
Mix flour, sugar, butter, oil and egg to a sticky dough. Roll out and use your fingers to spread it out into a 24 cm round cake tin (I layered the bottom with greaseproof paper and made sure the sides were well buttered).
For the filling: beat the eggs in a pan. Add sugar, vanilla, and flour. Add the boiling milk last and turn on the heat. Keep stirring until thick, but don’t let it boil.
Pour the filling on the dough and place in oven for 45 minutes. Check the colour (it should become golden brown) and if the filling stiffens. Cool down before taking it out of the tin. (Although, when you’re impatient like me, it also comes out well when hot and is really delicious warm as well.

xxx Esther

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