By Rajlakshmi
May 8, 2026
These lemon tarts are an artistic expression for those who love to bake. Lemon tarts need time, precision and patience. This recipe can help home bakers make lemon tarts easily.
200 gm flour 100 gm sugar 100 gm butter 1 small egg (50g) ¼ tsp vanilla 2 large eggs 2 large egg yolks 100 gm sugar ¼ tsp salt 60 gm lime juice 40 gm orange juice 4 gm orange zest 6 gm lime zest 200 gm heavy cream
Take a mixing bowl, and add refined flour. Grate butter into the sugar and flour. Mix everything with a fork.
In another bowl, mix egg and vanilla essence and pour into the flour bowl. Form a hard dough. Wrap with cling film. Refrigerate for an hour.
Grease the base and edges of the tart tin throughout with butter and line with baking paper. Roll out the dough to get a 3mm thick pastry. Put pastry over the tart tin.
Seal edges with a little dough. Refrigerate the pastry for 2 hours. Remove and line it with aluminium foil. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius.
Blind bake the pastry. After 25 minutes, remove the aluminium foil and bake till golden and crisp. Let it cool. Shave off the excess pastry.
In a bowl, break two whole eggs and two yolks, add sugar, salt, orange and lime zest to it and whisk. Pour into it 60 gm lime juice and 40 gm orange juice, followed by heavy cream.
Mix. Pour it over the open-baked pastry, and bake in the preheated oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes.
Take it out, and refrigerate for some minutes before cutting. Garnish with thinly sliced lemon pieces, cut into triangular shapes and serve with coffee.