I can remember years ago making a custard tart and my grandma being so impressed, as the pastry hadn’t popped up through the custard. Well, I’m delighted to say there was no pastry peeking where it shouldn’t have been, when I made these delicious gluten free custard tarts.

Perfecting a gluten free custard tart recipe has been a labour of love for me over the past few months. Although, I must be honest there were times I almost gave up. Thankfully, my saving grace was discovering a fabulous ‘no frills’ custard tart/tartlet recipe in my grandma’s Be-Ro Home Recipes booklet. The recipe worked an absolute treat when made with gluten free pastry and I felt a sense of achievement that I’d finally created gluten free custard tarts, that were good enough to tell you about. 

I’m delighted with this gluten free sweet pastry recipe, as not only is the sweet buttery pastry gorgeous, it’s also an absolute treat to work with!

The original recipe I used to make this gluten free sweet pastry, came from the marvellous website recipetin eats. If you’ve not yet discovered this wonderful site, I urge you to take a peep, as many of the recipes, if not already naturally gluten free, can be easily adapted to make them so.

This recipe for gluten free sweet pastry is yours to keep and use however you wish. It may be that you simply want to make a crisp pastry base to fill with rich chocolate ganache and top with raspberries, or rustle up a delicious fresh fruit flan. Or maybe, you want to recreate your favourite sweet pastry pudding, completely gluten free or use it for a scrumptious recipe you’ve spotted.