Custard Recipe with egg

This is a recipe for a sweet homemade custard made from scratch. Yes, without the powder.

This custard recipe with egg requires 6 egg yolks and makes about 3 cups of custard.

Egg Custard Ingredients

To make this custard, you’ll need:

• 2 cups milk (500 ml)
• 1/2 cup thickened cream (heavy cream) (125 ml)
• 6 egg yolks
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 tablespoon cornflour.

Making Custard with eggs

Start by bringing the milk and cream to the boil in a saucepan.

Whisk together egg yolks, sugar and cornflour in a bowl.

Pour the hot milk and cream mixture over the egg, sugar and cornflour mixture slowly, whisking to combine.

Pour everything back into the saucepan and heat gently, whisking regularly.

The mixture should thicken within 5 minutes.

Don’t allow the mixture to boil!

Once thickened, remove from the heat.

Serve your custard immediately or allow to cool a little before covering with plastic food wrap and storing in the fridge.

Enjoying your custard

You can serve this custard just on its own or add some sliced banana or tinned fruit.

You could also use it to make a trifle or other dessert.

You can also add some brandy to create Brandy Custard.

Wondering what to do with all those leftover egg whites? Make a pavlova, pavlova grazing board, Amaretti biscuits or freeze them to use later.