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Lime Tarts

Preparation time: 60 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Servings: 12

These small lime tarts are super easy and quick to make, with a delightful fresh and tangy lime flavor. My tarts are baked in "brioche" molds or tartlet molds.

Lime Tarts

Ingredients

  • Shortcrust Pastry
  • 200 g flour
  • 50 g powdered sugar
  • 100 g butter
  • 1 egg
  • Lime Cream
  • 4 limes
  • 2 eggs
  • 85 g sugar
  • 70 g butter

Instructions

  1. Shortcrust Pastry
  2. Crumble butter into flour and mix together
  3. Add powdered sugar
  4. Add egg and mix quickly
  5. Chill the pastry for at least ½ hour
  6. Roll out the pastry to fit 12 molds
  7. Blind bake the bases for 5 min, then without blind baking for 10 min at 180°C conventional oven
  8. Lime Cream
  9. Grate the zest of 2 limes
  10. Juice all 4 limes
  11. Heat zest, juice, eggs, and sugar slowly in a saucepan until it thickens
  12. Whisk the cream into the butter and chill
  13. Fill the pre-baked bases with the cream and bake the tarts for 3-5 min
  14. Top with lime zest and wood sorrel

Lime Tarts

Cake and sweets
Lime Tarts

These small lime tarts are super easy and quick to make, with a delightful fresh and tangy lime flavor. My tarts are baked in "brioche" molds or tartlet molds.

Posted on 4/30/2025

Servings

12

Total time

1 hour & 20 minutes

Servings

12

Total time

1 hour & 20 minutes

Ingredients

Shortcrust Pastry

•
200 g flour
•
50 g powdered sugar
•
100 g butter
•
1 egg

Lime Cream

•
4 limes
•
2 eggs
•
85 g sugar
•
70 g butter

Instructions

Shortcrust Pastry

1

Crumble butter into flour and mix together

2

Add powdered sugar

3

Add egg and mix quickly

4

Chill the pastry for at least ½ hour

5

Roll out the pastry to fit 12 molds

6

Blind bake the bases for 5 min, then without blind baking for 10 min at 180°C conventional oven

Lime Cream

1

Grate the zest of 2 limes

2

Juice all 4 limes

3

Heat zest, juice, eggs, and sugar slowly in a saucepan until it thickens

4

Whisk the cream into the butter and chill

5

Fill the pre-baked bases with the cream and bake the tarts for 3-5 min

6

Top with lime zest and wood sorrel


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