Lovely Lemon Tart
Tangy gorgeousness that just melts in your mouth, this fab french lemon tart is perfect for the wow factor dessert. Very few ingredients, a little bit of time and freshly squeezed and zested lemons from your own tree. Voila!
Ingredients
Pastry:
- 1½ cups flour
- ½ cup icing sugar
- 125 g butter chilled and cubed
- 2 tsp lemon zest
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp iced water
Filling:
- 5 eggs
- ½ cup caster sugar
- ¾ cup of cream
- 55 ml lemon juice
Instructions
- Mix flour and sugar in a processor, add butter, then lemon zest and egg yolk and then the
- water and process. Wrap pastry in plastic film and place in the fridge for 20 minutes. Blind
- bake the pastry using a 23-25 cm flan dish for 10 minutes, remove the cover and bake for a further 5 minutes until golden.
- To make the filling; beat the eggs and sugar in a bowl until the sugar dissolves, beat in the
- cream and add the lemon juice. Pour into cooked pastry shell and bake at 180°C for 20-25
- minutes or until filling is set.
- Serve dusted with icing sugar via sifted and shaken from a tea strainer, a dollop of cream and some fresh berries.
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