Lemon Meringue Tartlets

A much loved bakery classic, these lemon meringue tartlets are a perfect balance of tangy lemon paired with Queen vanilla, topped off with lightly toasted meringue and delicate raspberry dust. The perfect addition to your bakery cabinet or dessert menu.

Prep

20 minutes, plus chilling

Cook

60 minutes

Portions

10 Tartlets

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Rich Shortcrust Pastry

  • Makes: 10 x 10cm round bases

215g butter, soften
150g icing sugar
80g (whole eggs- lightly whisked)
10g Queens organic vanilla bean paste
1.5g fine salt
375g plain flour
40g almond meal

Lemon Curd

Meringue

Makes: 600g

120g water
375g caster sugar
150g egg white

Garnish

Freeze dried raspberries, crushed

  1. For shortcrust pastry, cream butter and icing sugar with paddle and mixer. Mix in egg and salt. Fold in flour and almond meal, and mix using a spatula. Knead dough lightly by flattening once or twice using the heel of your hand. Press flat, cover in cling wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, ideally overnight.
  2. Preheat oven to 180°C. Remove pastry from fridge and set aside for 1 hour before using. Roll pastry out and line 10 x 10cm round flan pastry rings. Allow approximately 60g pastry per tartlet. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  3. Blind bake tartlets with baking paper and loading for 15 minutess or until lightly golden.
  4. For lemon curd, hydrate gelatine in cold water. Whisk egg lightly in a stainless steel bowl. Put lemon juice, zest and sugar in a saucepan. Whisk a little to dissolve the sugar and place over medium-high heat. Bring mixture to boil, remove from heat and pour over egg while whisking energetically to ensure it doesn’t cook.
  5. Pour mixture back into saucepan, return to heat and continue to whisk. As soon as it starts to boil, remove from heat. Whisk in butter, drained gelatine and vanilla paste, then blend for 2-3 minutes using a stick blender.
  6. Pour 100g of lemon curd into each tartlet and chill for 1 hour.
  7. For meringue, pour water into a very clean saucepan. Gently add sugar, avoiding splashes. Slowly heat mixture using a sugar thermometer (don’t let it touch sides or bottom of the pan). When syrup reaches 114°C, beat egg whites in a stainless steel bowl with a mixer at full speed.
  8. Once syrup reaches 121°C, remove saucepan from heat. Wait for bubbles to disperse, pour syrup in a thin stream into egg white while beating. Continue to beat until meringue mixture has cooled.
  9. Pipe meringue onto top of each tartlet and blowtorch until lightly toasted. Garnish with freeze dried raspberries.

Products used in this recipe

Organic Vanilla Bean Paste with Vanilla Seeds 320 g

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