all you tarts listen up...

just a warning....this is an annoyingly long cooking post....hooray if you make it to the end!!

my post about life giving you limes had a few of you requesting a recipe.
here goes...

 

 

 

yes there are dirty dishes in the sink and yes we starting eating it before I took a photo!
priorities people!
and I wanted a blow torch shot but some silly kid drama got in the way.
 

my dears heres the recipe...

 

sweet pastry for the base...

200gms castor sugar

300 gms butter

500gms flour

2 eggs

 

mix together room temp butter and sugar

add eggs

then flour

mix till comes together and resembles pastry dough

roll into big lump, wrap in cling film and chill in fridge for 30 mins (the dough not you!)

then roll out to size

(nic used a 28cm tart tin)

 

blind bake the case in a 180 oven till just cooked (no colour)

for blind baking nic uses soup mix as the filler

less air pockets than the clay beads

then pour in the filling.

 

for the filling you will need...

6 eggs

200ml fresh lemon juice

100ml fresh lime juice

120ml cream

250gms castor sugar

zest of 1 lemon

zest of 3 limes

 

 

whisk together eggs and sugar

whisk in juices

whisk in cream

I love saying whisk

 

then pour through a strainer

add zest and.....you guessed it whisk (gently).

 

now that all that yummy goodness is in your tart case bake at 160 until filling is just set and tart edges are golden.

cool in the fridge for a 30 min or so

for a little bit of added specialness sprinkle with castor sugar, pull out a blow torch from your utility belt and blast that tart!

you can of course skip this step and just devour with cream or ice cream

but...the crunchy toffee top does magical things let me tell ya!!!!

nics blow torch is just a cheapie from aldi and works a treat.
toffee shards or praline would work too!

 

but toffee top or no this tart is my all time favourite and that's saying a lot....ive had me some tarts in my day....shut up Pippa!

it has zing! and zings my thing!

probably not so kind to the hips but.....who gives a rats! its very high in Vit C...great for those winter blues.

give it a try I dare you.

 

Now....my beautiful cousin dropped in a bag of these beauties!

any suggestions?

 

happy cooking

Al xx

ps...did you see the money shot!!...yep I caught the yolk falling from the egg!
in all its glowing glory.
we are lucky enough to get freshies straight from the in laws chook shed. x