Lemon and lime tart

Name: Lemon and lime tart
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 9 whole eggs; 400 g castor sugar; juice and zest of 2 limes; 100 g icing sugar; 250 g plain flour; 1 egg, beaten; juice and zest of 3 lemons; 250 ml King Island double cream; icing sugar; juice and zest of 2 lemons; 1 vanilla pod, seeds only; 125 g unsalted butter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

My Food

By Cheong Liew and Elizabeth Ho

Published 1995

About

Glen Dentice developed this dessert using the irresistible partnership of tangy lemon and lime. As an alternative topping, make a caramel toffee and crush it into a powder. Sprinkle this over the top of the tart and place under the griller until the toffee melts.

Ingredients

Sugar pastry

juice and zest of 2 lemons
125 g unsalted butter
1<

Oceania
Australia
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Sugar pastry

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Finely chop and double blanch the lemon zest. Rub the butter, vanilla seeds, sugar and flour together to the fine grain stage. Add the zest then the lemon juice and egg until a dough is formed, but don’t over