
Key Lime Tarts recipe: adapted from Allrecipes.com
Ingredients:
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- ½ cup key lime juice
- 1 teaspoon grated lime zest
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 egg
- 1 tart crust recipe (see recipe below)
Instructions:
- In a medium bowl, blend together condensed milk, lime juice and zest. Mix in egg yolks and whole egg. Pour mixture into pie or tart crust, then cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Chill before serving.
Tart Dough recipe: Martha Stewart - Baking Handbook
Ingredients:
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons heavy cream
Instructions:
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter and confectioners’ sugar. Mix on low speed until combined, about 2 minutes.
- Add egg yolks, and mix until incorporated, about 1 minute, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Add ¾ cup flour, and mix on low speed just until the flour is incorporated, about 30 seconds. Add remaining ¾ cup flour along with the salt and cream, and mix just until flour is no longer visible, about 1 minute.
- Turn out dough onto a piece of plastic wrap, and shape into a flattened disk. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours of overnight. The dough can be frozen up to 1 month; thaw overnight in the refrigerator before using.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to an ½ inch thickness. With a sharp paring knife, cut out rounds of dough using a tartlet pan as a guide, leaving a ½ inch border around the edge. Fit the dough into tartlet pans, and lightly prick the bottom of the dough in each pan all over with a fork. Refrigerate tartlet shells until chilled, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. When tartlets are chilled, bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Pour lime mixture in tartlets, and refrigerate for 1 hour. Then, bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes.




9 comments:
These look awesome and I bet they'd taste even better with the meringue. Man, if they taste so similar to the Herme tarts without the buttload of butter, I think I'd stick to this. I do want to be a dietitian eventually, after all 8).
True, but I believe a can of sweetened condensed milk has 1820 calories!! They're both bad for a diet :P!
I love citrus little tarts! I bet when you add the meringue topping next time it will get 5/5 :)
Gets 5/5 for me anyway, looks too yum!
I would love to try key lime pie one day - it isn't a done thing here in Aus.
LOL, generally anything that tastes over the top good is not healthy for you.
When you visited FL this summer you were in my neck of the woods. I live about 45 minutes from Mickey.
~ingrid
So good looking and sunny tarts! Really reminds about a summer! :)
i love lime tarts! i mek them quite often!
have a sweet day!
justyna
This looks amazing!!! I love all things key lime :)
oh wow I love key lime these little tarts are great
Rebecca
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