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Lemon Tart With Toffee

Here's how you make Lemon Tart With Toffee
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  • Servings: 6
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 60m
  • The following recipe serves 6 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (plain)
  • 2 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 125 grams butter, diced (cold)
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 1/2 cups caster sugar
  • 2 whole lemons (rind finely grated and 1/2 cup juice)
  • 2/3 cup cream
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Process flour, icing sugar and butter in a food processor until find crumbs form and then add 1 egg and the yolk and process until it combes together.

  • Step 2: Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead lightly until smooth and then shap into a disc, wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.

  • Step 3: Meanwhile, line a baking tray with baking paper.

  • Step 4: Place 1 cup of the caster sugar into a non-stick frying pan with 2 tablespoon water and sitr over medium heat until sugar dissolves and comes to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes until golden and pour immediately onto the tray and cool completely.

  • Step 5: Preheat oven to 200C.

  • Step 6: Grease a 25cm fluted loose-based pan and place onto a baking tray.

  • Step 7: Rol pastry until 3mm thick and large enough to line the pan.

  • Step 8: Lift into the pan and press into sides and trim and then freeze for 10 minutes.

  • Step 9: Line pastry with baking paper and fill with dried beans or baking beads and bake for 10 minutes.

  • Step 10: Remove beads and paper and bake for 10 minutes or until cooked and golden and then let cool.

  • Step 11: Reduce oven temperature to 160C.

  • Step 12: Whisk remaining eggs and caster sugar with lemon rind, juice and cream in a bowl and then pour into pastry shell and bake for 30 minutes or until just set and cool completely.

  • Step 13: Break toffee into pieces and process in a food processor until finely chopped and then sprinkle over tart and using a blowtorch melt until golden.


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