Vegan custard tart (no milk no eggs)

This is kind of embarrassing, but I had never eaten a custard tart in my life… or made one, for that matter… and I’m a french trained pastry chef. I don’t even know how that happened 😅 What do you mean it wasn’t part of my pastry school curriculum? What do you mean I never picked one up at a bakery or had it at the cafeteria? I don’t know, honestly… it just never appealed to me.

And to top it off, I didn’t even really know what it was made of. No one told me it was basically just pastry cream in a crust… it’s so easy to make vegan. Definitely not the recipe that took me the most time to develop 😍

Anyway, I decided to keep things super simple here because I’m starting a new series of easy vegan cakes for hosting — perfect for beginners! I chose to use store-bought puff pastry instead of shortcrust. It’s less work and easier to line the tin with, especially if you want those nice tall edges.