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Fall in Love with This Luscious Lemon Tart

Looking for a new dessert to try? Here is a recipe for an easy tangy tart.

"Someone has stolen three of my tarts!" ~The Red Queen (Alice in Wonderland)

While thumbing through my People magazine last week I came upon a recipe for a lemon tart. Having never made a tart before, and therefore not realizing how easy it would be, I skipped right over it. The following day the magazine was laying on the coffee table and after a gust of wind blew through the window, the magazine opened to what else...the lemon tart recipe. 

My dessert destiny was calling to me. Clearly I needed to embrace it. And as luck would have it, I had all the ingredients right in the kitchen.

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This recipe calls for no baking and the whole process takes about fifteen minutes from beginning to end. It tastes so fresh and tangy and is such a beautiful color...it's a must-make.

Lemon Tart

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Ingredients:

  • 1 graham cracker crust (I used store-bought)
  • 2 cold eggs
  • 2 cold egg yolks
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 6 tbsp cold butter cut into 6 pieces

Directions:

  • Heat about 2 inches of water in a pot until boiling.
  • Whisk eggs, yolks and sugar in a heat-safe bowl for about a minute.
  • Place the bowl over the pot of boiling water and whisk for two minutes.
  • Whisk in lemon juice in three parts.
  • Continue whisking until mixture is thickened and light in color, about 8 minutes.
  • Turn off heat and whisk in butter one piece at a time.
  • Pour mixture into crust and place on a baking sheet.
  • Put under the broiler for about 20 seconds or until lightly browned.
  • Serve at room temperature or cold.

Enjoy!

(Thomas Keller's Lemon Tart recipe - published in People Magazine)

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