Savour the flavour
Olive|April 2023
Sweeten up your Easter with Taylor & Colledge's delicious range of organic vanilla products
Savour the flavour

For more than 120 years, Taylor & Colledge has expertly crafted the finest vanilla extracts and pastes to help awaken the flavour in your dishes. Whether it's a spoonful of paste to elevate your sponge cake, a drop of Fairtrade-certified vanilla extract to enhance the chocolate in a dessert or a trusty pod to refine savoury dishes, you can count on the much-loved vanilla brand to bring your creations to life. Better still, Taylor & Colledge only ever handpicks its vanilla in small batches to ensure it's of the highest quality. It's also entirely organic and made from the finest ingredients, with no additives and nothing artificial added.

To help get you started on your Taylor & Colledge journey, TV chef and dessert enthusiast Lisa Faulkner has created these beautiful Portuguese-inspired custard tarts for you to try at home. Their rich creaminess is intensified by the moreish flavour of the Vanilla Extract, and making them is simpler than you might think it's stopping at eating just one that's the hard part!

Portuguese-inspired custard tarts
50 MINUTES MAKES 12 MORE EFFORT

1 Tightly roll the pastry into a long sausage-shaped spiral, then cut into 12 equal-sized pieces and push your thumb into the middle of each one, flattening them into 9cm discs. Press the pastry discs into the holes of a shallow 12-hole tin - the thinner, the better - then prick the bottoms with a fork. Chill in the fridge.

2 Meanwhile, whisk the flour with 25ml milk until smooth. In a small pan, combine the caster sugar and 80ml of water, then bring to the boil and cook until it reaches 100C. If you don't have a thermometer, dip a spoon into the syrup and lift it - a large drop should form and fall into a short, thin string. Avoid stirring the mixture, as this will cause it to crystalise. Set aside to cool.

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