Sweet Bakery Lemon Meringue Tarts
- Reviews 2
Ready In: 1 hr
Yields: 8 tartletts
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup ground almonds
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 cup unsalted butter
Lemon Curd
- 8 egg yolks
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice
- 2 lemons, zest of
- 4 tablespoons butter
Meringue
- 8 egg whites
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 pinch cream of tartar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F Butter 8 tartlet pans and set aside. Put the sugar, salt, flour, almonds, and almond extract in the bowl of a food processor and process to mix. With the machine running, add the butter in the feed tube about 2 tbsp at a time. Process until dough forms a ball.
- Press dough into tartlet pans and bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.
- To prepare the curd, put the lime juice, zest, sugar, and egg yolks in a metal bowl, whisk until the curd thickens and coats the back of a spoon.
- Pour into prepared tartlet shells.
- To prepare the meringue, put the egg whites and the cream of tartar in the bowl of a heavy duty mixer and mix on high speed until the egg whites are very fluffy.
- With machine running add the sugar a little at a time. Continue to whip on a high speed until whites are shiny and stiff peaks form.
- Place meringue in a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe over the curd.
- To brown the outside if the tartlets, place the tartlets on a broiler pan and brown.
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