Lemon Tart

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 6 | Cook: 35min
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A lemon tart is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the fruit cake category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 225 g flour
  • 0.5 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 untreated lemon (peeled zest)
  • 100 g butter
  • 30 g powdered sugar
  • 2 untreated lemons (juice and zest)
  • 100 g powdered sugar
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 300 ml crème fraîche
  • 150 g whole wheat cookies
  • 1 lemon
  • powdered sugar (for dusting)

Instructions

  1. 1.

    For the dough, quickly mix the butter with the flour, cinnamon, lemon zest, sugar and a little cold water until a smooth dough forms. Shape into a ball, wrap in foil and refrigerate for 1 hour.

  2. 2.

    Crush the cookies, put them in a bowl, pour the warm mixture over them and let stand for 30 minutes. Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a rectangle of 10 x 28 cm, place it in a greased long tart pan. Cut strips from the leftovers.

  3. 3.

    Fill with lemon filling, smooth it out, arrange dough strips in a lattice pattern over the cake. Bake at 180°C for 35 minutes. Let cool well, halve the remaining lemon, slice and distribute on top of the cake pieces, then dust with powdered sugar.