Lemon Tart

🧂 Ingredients

• 145 g unsalted butter

  at room temperature
• 75 g icing sugar

  sifted
• ¼ cup ground almonds
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 large egg

  at room temperature
• 245 g plain flour

  all-purpose
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups caster sugar
• zest of 3 lemons
• 250 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
• ½ cup flour

  all purpose
• icing sugar

  to serve

Instructions

• 1 To make the tart dough, place the butter in a large food processor bowl fitted
  with a metal blade. Process until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides
  with a rubber spatula as needed.
• 2 Add the icing sugar and process until well blended.
• 3 Add the ground almonds, salt, vanilla and process until smooth, scraping down
  the sides of the bowl as necessary before adding the egg and processing until
  combined.
• 4 Add the flour and pulse the mixture until it just starts to form a ball and
  stop. Remove the mixture from the food processor bowl and place onto cling film
  and form into two flat discs. Wrap each disk separately and refrigerate for at
  least 4 hours, you can freeze the 2nd dough disk to use another time.
• 5 Once chilled, remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll out between 2
  sheets of baking paper until 3mm thick.
• 6 Carefully place the dough into a 24cm tart tin and press the dough against the
  bottom and edges of the tin to ensure it is well fitted. If the dough cracks or
  splits simply patch with additional pastry. Trim the top of the tart – the
  easiest way to do this is to roll the rolling pin over the top of the tart case
  which will trim the edges neatly.
• 7 Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and repeat with the second portion of dough.
• 8 Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius (350 Fahrenheit) and line the tarts with
  baking paper and add dried beans or pastry weights and bake for 20 to 25 minutes
  until lightly coloured.
• 9 Set aside while you make the filling.
• 10 To make the filling, preheat the oven to 150 celsius (300 Fahrenheit) whisk the
  eggs and caster sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer until well combined.
  Whisk in the lemon zest and juice before sifting the flour over the top and
  whisking until smooth.
• 11 Pour the filling into the prepared tart cases and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or
  until the top is set.
• 12 Once cool dust with icing sugar.

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