Milk tart is such a favourite and uniquely South African dessert that an entire day is set aside every year to celebrate this symbol of our baking tradition. National Milk Tart Day is marked annually on February 27. In her Rocklands community, Naomi Marshall, 78, is noted as a top-class mik tart baker,and is swamped by requests from family, friends and fellow parishioners of her church, Christ the King Anglican Church, to bake her delectable tarts. Ms Marshall, pictured, told the Plainsman that her sought-after recipe originally belonged to her dear departed friend, Lina Hendricks.