Salt and Sweet Pie Cups

Method

For pie cups:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Beat the butter, sugar, and eggs well.
3. Add dry ingredients to butter and egg mixture and mix.
4. Make small balls in your hands – place into small patty pans.
5. Use petty press to make cup in pan – dip petty press into dry cake flour on the side in order to make sure that the dough does not stick to the petty press.
6. Bake for few minutes (keep a close eye on the baking).

Tip

When you press the ball of dough down with the petty press, press it to the bottom of the pan – as you do not want a thick bottom for your pie cups!

For savoury filling:

1. Mix Tuna and mayonnaise.

For condensed milk filling:

1. Boil tin of condensed milk for 3 hours – make sure it is always covered in boiling water – NEVER forget about it on the stove.
2. Place boiled condensed milk into pie cups and grate peppermint crisp chocolate on top.

For milk tart filling:

1. Bring milk and butter to the boil.
2. Mix Maizena, salt, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla essence with a little bit of milk until there are no lumps.
3. Add to the boiling milk and butter mixture and stir until boiling – remove from heat.
4. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry – fold egg whites into the mixture – let cool.
5. Fill pie cups and sprinkle cinnamon.