
Place the pot into a large, shallow pan/pot with barely simmering water. Add cream cheese, Mascarpone cheese, Parmesan cheese, fresh milk and salted butter into a small pot. While waiting, prepare the cheese custard.Wrap the dough and place in fridge to rest for about 1 hour.Add fresh milk, the dough will become very soft and pliable.The mixture will come together and thereafter, use hands to form the mixture into a dough.Add egg yolk to the mixture, use a scraper to mix the egg yolk into flour mixture.Using finger tips, break the butter and rub the butter into the flour mixture, until it resembles bread crumbs.Sift the cake flour and icing sugar into a large bowl.
#Bake cheese tart free#
Feel free to try out other cheese combinations.”. These are the ingredients I have on-hand and am familiar with. There is no way I could get any Hokkaido cream cheese here, so I used Philadelphia cream cheese, mascarpone cheese, parmesan cheese and salted butter instead, as well as fresh milk and eggs.

(Related: Recipe for Ondeh-ondeh or Klepon) After four attempts and nine tart cases - I test-baked the first four piece by piece to get the right consistency, the right temperature and timing - and with many adjustments to the cheese custard, I was finally successful.

I almost wanted to eat the other one there and then.Īfter coming home, I kept thinking about baking this tart and started searching on the internet for recipes and attempts by other bakers. I took one bite after another and in no time, one tart was gone. The tart pastry was fragrant and crunchy and the filling was really sharp, cheesy and creamy. I, too, had queued for about 30 mins at Bake Cheese Tart’s Jiyugaoka outlet in Japan and bought two tarts: one for immediate consumption and the other, for breakfast the next day. “The aroma of the tarts filled the entire shop - the street even - and I could see why people were willing to queue for them.
