French Country Apple Tarts

Little puff pastry, vanilla creme patissiere filled French apple tarts. A rustic looking, delicious, autumn dessert or lovely with afternoon tea or coffee.

5 medium sized eggs (I used size 7’s and only the whites are needed)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup standard flour
1/3 cup cornflour
2 cups full cream milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, paste or the seeds scraped from a 5 cm vanilla bean (2 inches)

3 tablespoons +1 teaspoon butter
3 ready rolled sheets of flakey puff pastry
1 small egg (size 5 or 6)
5 small to medium sized apples
2 tablespoons white sugar

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