Lemon Tart Recipe
This Lemon Tart with a Shortbread Cookie Crust is garnished with Pansies to make a showstopper dessert! Easy and beautiful!
- Author: Jo-Anna Rooney
- Prep Time: 80 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Yield: 8 - 10 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert
Lemon Tart Filling:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- juice from 1 lemon (about 1/4 cup)
- zest from 1 lemon
Shortbread Crust:
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- dash of salt
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp butter (at room temperature)
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
The Shortbread Cookie Crust:
- In your food processor, pulse the flour, sugar, salt and butter until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. This should only take about 30 seconds.
- Press the crumbly mixture into a 10 inch tart pan (making the sides slightly higher than the centre. Do this by pressing the mixture up towards the edge of the pan).
- Bake the crust for about 15 minutes, or until the edges are lightly golden brown. Make sure to watch it carefully to make sure the crust doesn’t burn.
- Once the crust has finished baking, remove it from the oven and set it aside to cool completely.
Lemon Tart Filling:
- In a saucepan whisk together the sugar and the egg until smooth.
- Stir in the melted butter, fresh lemon juice, and lemon zest, and cook on low-medium heat, whisking often.
- Whisk and cook until the lemon curd glaze thickens, about 15 – 20 minutes.
- If needed, you can use a hand blender to make the lemon filling more creamy in consistency.
Putting your tart together:
- Once the tart crust and the lemon filling have cooled completely you can put together your tart!
- Spread the lemon cream filling on to the crust, to about a 1/4 inch from the edge.
- Chill for at least 1 hour before serving.
- Right before serving, garnish the tart with organic pansies for a show-stopper dessert!
- Enjoy!
Keywords: lemon curd, shortbread crust, tart