Having been
successful with a lemon
curd I thought I would give a
lemon tart a go.
As you can
see from the picture the quantity of filling wasn't enough for the size of pie
dish that I had (I only have one!) and as a result the pastry above the filling
over-cooked. I tried to cut it off to
make a nice photo but crumbs shot everywhere … sigh.
If/when I
do it again I would trim the pastry down to the level of the filling (or even
better make more filling). I used frozen
store bought sweet short crust pastry.
So I
greased the dish, put the pastry sheet in and trimmed round the top. I pricked the bottom a few times with a fork
and then put in baking beans on top of baking paper. I baked it blind (that is with the beans in)
for 15 minutes at 190 degrees C ( approx. 375 F), took the beans and kitchen
paper out and gave it another 3 minutes.
While it
was baking blind I prepared the filling
– which was surprisingly easy to do. The
ingredients were:
3 eggs
¼ cup lemon
juice (I sieved mine)
1
tablespoon grated lemon zest
½ cup
caster sugar
¾ cup cream
(double cream)
More lemon
zest to garnish (this garnish didn't work that well for me – it was a bit wet
and clumpy)
You just
beat the eggs, lemon juice, zest and sugar until it is combined (I just used a
stick blender). Very lightly beat in the
cream – by hand is best I think. And you
are done – just pour it into the pastry shell and bake it for 5 minutes at the
original temperature and then reduced the temperature to 150 degrees C (300F)
and cooked it for another 20 minutes at which stage the tart was lightly
set. It firms up further as it cools.
It was
delicious but sinful.
It looks delicious and sinful! I really need to make a lemon dessert soon.
ReplyDeleteThat looks so good. I love lemon things - all lemon things. Yum!
ReplyDeleteLove lemon as well but never heard of caster sugar
ReplyDeleteIt looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteI think the nearest thing to caster sugar in other countries might be superfine sugar? Caster sugar is like granulated but just a much smaller size of crystal.
I love anything lemon!
ReplyDeleteYum I love anything lemon and key lime pie is a favourite so I'll have to give this a go.Thanks for the share!
ReplyDeleteOoh, this lemon tart looks good.
ReplyDeleteWe had lemon bars today, but your tart looks even better!
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice simple recipe for the filling. Your tart looks delectable.
ReplyDeleteLemon is a favorite of mine in savory meals and especially in desserts.
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