Failed Egg Tarts :P

hahaha I still insist that I must post this up
of my 1st attempt in making chinese egg tarts
which was so failed dot come
>.<

so I started with the short crust pastry that requires butter and margarine...
after rolling out the pastry, I realised I needed to make precise shape according to its mould
out of the blue and outta my luck I found a nice stainless steel cover meant for JS's sauce bottle

u know those lil nice gadget where chefs used to paint the plate by squeezing liquid/almost liquid food outta a clear white plastic bottle??
heeeeeeeeeeeee :)))))))
*I m so creative when it comes to short cut and laziness*
so I used its extremely nice stainless steel cover/bottle neck to chop chop chop my pastry

then drop the round pastry onto this aluminium mould for tarts
press lightly as u go round and round and round and round and round

and it will bcome like this :))))))))))))))
by far everything was looking good and according to plan

usually when I bake, I'll switch on my air-cond in the dry kitchen full blast
in fact this is a very good environment for the pastry, so they said :P
bcoz it's not too warm and melts the buttery dough as u work on it

then prepare the egg custard
I was so disappointed to know that the egg custard contained so much of evaporated milk
alwiz imagined that egg tarts have only egg yolks :P
silly me....hahahahahaa

la-la-la-la pour them in!!!
Hot Mama Thevi lurves this borosilicate glass jug of mine
I got it at a super big sale at BODUM *errr less than RM 10???*

yeah I know right at that price for BODUM?
when we were in Factory Outlet in Paris...Monkey went berserk when she saw BODUM

WATTT? a BODUM outlet among Ferragamo, D&G and Valentino???
but we didn't get anything then coz our luggages were then full storing other goods *Ahem ahem*

BODUM is known for their double walled coffee cups/glasses and they are so pretty too.
I lurve BODUM :)))))))))))))))))
can totally do a separate posting just on BODUM :P
hehehehehehe
sorry...let's get back to our failed egg tarts

and then my egg tarts got outta the oven
it looked so PRETTY!!!!
so nice!!!!!

I was a eppy eppy Monkey
hopping like a rabbit in my kitchen
blessed to alwiz have success on most attempts
*except my macarons :((*
but it was soon short-lived

then the next step is to sink them into your mouth - the taste test

PUI!!!!
it was too SWEET!!!!!
the pastry wasn't crumbly enuff and definitely not as buttery as I want it to be

Monkey was so upset
JS pacified me by swearing at that stupid recipe $%*^#*%^#%^@$
HAHAHAHHAHA

yeah I guess this recipe just doesn't work
if u have a good one, please do share with me
:)))))))))))))))))