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Easy Italian Lemon Mascarpone Tart

Easy Italian Lemon Mascarpone Tart

Easy Italian Lemon Mascarpone Tart is creamy, tangy, lemony and delicious. Quick to put together and quicker still if you use a store bought pastry.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Cooling Time 2 hours
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8 slices
Calories 531 kcal

Equipment

  • Food Processor
  • round tart pan
  • frying pan

Ingredients
  

Pastry

  • 125 ml sour cream
  • 250 g plain (all purpose) flour
  • 200 g cold butter, cubed

Filling

  • 250 g fresh ricotta cheese
  • 250 g mascarpone cheese
  • cup sugar
  • 2 large whole eggs
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind
  • 80 ml fresh lemon juice

Lemon Slices

  • 1 lemon thinly sliced into rounds
  • cup castor sugar
  • cup water

Instructions
 

Sour Cream Pastry

  • Put the butter and flour into the bowl of a food processor, then pulse until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add the sour cream and pulse again until the dough just forms a ball.
  • Form into a flat disk, cover with cling film and refrigerate for 20 mins.
  • Roll dough out to fit a round tart pan 25cm x 2.5cm (10” x 1”) size tin, using a fork poke holes all over the pastry and then fit the pastry into the tin and chill again for 60 minutes.
  • Preheat oven to 200c (390f ) bake not fan.
  • Trim the excess pastry from the tin using a sharp knife.

Blind Bake

  • Line the pastry case with a double layer of foil and fill with sugar to the top of the tin. Blind bake the pastry case for 15 minutes, then remove the foil and sugar. Return to the oven for another 5 minutes or until the pastry is pale golden and the bottom is dry.
  • While pastry is blind baking prepare the lemon mascarpone mixture.
  • Reduce the oven temperature to 170c (340f ).

Lemon filling

  • Place ricotta and mascarpone into a food processor and process until smooth.
  • Add sugar, eggs and yolks, lemon rind and juice and process again.
  • Put the tart tin on the middle oven shelf and carefully pour the mixture into the pastry.
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until just set with a slight wobble in the centre.
  • Remove from oven and allow to cool in the tin, then refrigerate still in the tart tin.
  • Remove from tin and serve.

Lemon slices

  • Put water and sugar into a frypan over medium heat. Cook until mixture starts to turn golden brown.
  • Slide in lemon slices and cook for a couple of minutes then turn slices over.
  • Cook until slices are well coated with the toffee, then remove slices and place on a sheet of baking paper to cool.
  • Arrange slices over the top of the tart.

Notes

Allow several hours in the refrigerator to cool and set.

Nutrition

Serving: 1sliceCalories: 531kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 7gFat: 43gSaturated Fat: 25gMonounsaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 230mgSodium: 369mgSugar: 27g
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