Rooibos Milk Tart Cookies

RECIPE

Rooibos-Infused Milk Tart Cookies 🫓Milk tart, but make it bite-sized and infused with rooibos 🌿☕ A soft buttery cookie base topped with creamy custard and a sprinkle of cinnamon – perfect with tea time! 🍪💛

Rooibos-Infused Milk Tart Cookies
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Cookies
125 g butter
½ cup icing sugar
⅓ cup cornflour
½ cup oil
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
½ rooibos tea bag leaves (optional)
2 cups flour

Method:
1. Beat butter and icing sugar until light and creamy.

2. Add cornflour and mix well.

3. Pour in oil, vanilla essence, and rooibos tea leaves. Mix until combined.

4. Add flour and form a soft dough.

5. Roll out dough, cut into large rounds, and bake at 180°C until lightly golden.

6. Cool completely before topping.





Milk Tart Topping
1 egg
¼ cup sugar
1 tablespoon cornflour
1 cup milk
1 cinnamon stick
1 rooibos tea bag

Method:
1. Whisk together egg, sugar, and cornflour in a bowl.

2. Heat milk with cinnamon stick until just before boiling.

3. Slowly pour hot milk into egg mixture while whisking continuously.

4. Return mixture to the pot and cook on low heat until thickened.

5. Remove from heat, add rooibos tea bag, steep for 1 minute, then remove.

6. Pour custard into a bowl, cover surface with cling wrap, and refrigerate until cold.

7. Transfer to a piping bag, pipe onto cooled cookies, and sprinkle with cinnamon

POSTED ON

24 Sep 2025

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