Name: Muskmelon in a Geometric State of Mind
Yield: Makes 6 Tarts
Ingredients: ½ cup lime juice (about 5 limes); 6 fully baked tart shells, made with Standard Tart Dough or Cracked Pepper Tart Dough; Grated zest of 3 limes (see step 1); 1 large egg yolk; 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces; Grated zest of 1 lemon (see step 1); 4 large eggs; ⅔ cup granulated sugar; ½ small muskmelon or cantaloupe, seeds removed; ½ small honeydew melon

Preparation info

Makes
6
Tarts

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Book of Tarts

By Maury Rubin

Published 1995

About

Muskmelon is like cantaloupe, and it’s great with the lime cream in this tart. As for getting the melon into that “geometric state of mind,” it’s easy. Use an apple corer to create a perfect column of melon, cut triangles from the flesh, scoop out circles. Then arrange the fruit on the tarts in random sculptural form. There is no right or wrong way, only what’s pleasing to your eye.