Tarte Montmartre

Name: Tarte Montmartre
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 4 teaspoons (4 x 5 ml spoon) caster sugar; 3 eggs, separated; 3 oz (75 g) icing sugar; coarsely grated lemon rind or julienne strips of lemon rind; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) water; 4 oz (100 g) butter; 3 oz (75 g) plain chocolate; juice of 2 and finely grated rind of 1 lemon; 2 oz (50 g) caster sugar; 1 oz (25 g) cornflour; 4 tablespoons (4 x 15 ml spoon) double or single cream; 6 oz (175 g) self-raising flour; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) cocoa powder

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1985

About

Here is one of my favourite combinations – sharp lemon with bitter chocolate. This delightful tart has a delicate chocolate pastry and a filling of light, frothy lemon, which is then iced with dark chocolate. It looks and tastes wonderful.

Ingredients

For the pastry

6 oz (175 g) self-raising flour
1 tablespoon (15</

Pie
Vegetarian

Method

To make the pastry, sift the flour, cocoa powder and icing sugar into a bowl. Melt the butter gently with the water. Pour into the bowl and mix in thoroughly with a spoon to form a dough. Press the warm dough as evenly as you can over the bottom and up the sides of a 9½-inch (