I love milktart… but I always tend to have milktart cravings during the fasting periods… and it used to make me suffer in silence… but not until I found an eggless milktart in a Sai Baba recipe book.

Since then I have never looked back.

Ingredients for the base:

• 1 x cup cake flour.
• 1 ½ x tsp baking powder.
• 5g x rama margarine.
• 2 x tbsp castor sugar.
• 4 x tbsp milk.

Ingredients for the filling:

• 2 ½ x cup milk.
• 2 x tbsp. ordinary white sugar.
• 1 x tsp of margarine.
• Mix this in a bowl and keep aside (4 x tbsp. maizena mixed with ½ x cup milk and 1 tsp vanilla essence).

Method for the base:

• Cream the margarine and the castor sugar together.
• Add the sifted cake flour and baking powder.
• Add the milk little by little, till the dough comes together. Knead till nice and smooth.
• Roll out onto a floured surface and line a greased pie dish with the pastry and using a fork prick the base.

Method for the filling:

• Boil the milk, castor sugar and margarine together till it starts to bubble.
• Add the mixture in the bowl to the boiling milk and allow to cook till it starts to thicken.
• Remove from heat and pour over the pastry base.
• Sprinkle cinnamon powder over the top and pop into a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes or until the filling is firm to touch.