Custard Cream Tartlets

In North America, you would be most likely to encounter these tartlets on a dim sum cart in a Chinese teahouse, though cities with Portuguese populations have bakeries that sell them. The tartlets migrated from Portugal to its former colony, Macao, near Hong Kong—thus their presence in Chinese restaurants, especially since dim sum is an essentially Hong Kong phenomenon. The real Portuguese version is made from a kind of puff pastry, rolled into a log and cut into disks. If you don’t feel li