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The Easiest Strawberry Tart Recipe

This is by far the easiest strawberry tart with cream cheese filling and with simple rough pastry dough, it tastes divine.
Recipe taken from Delish Magazine with small changes as per taste
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Setting Time 4 hours
Course Cakes and Bakes, Desserts, Vegetarian
Cuisine Global
Servings 8 slices approx

Ingredients
  

For the crust

  • 1 1/3 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup castor sugar
  • 2 pinch salt
  • 10 tbsp melted butter approx

For the filling

  • 1 cup cream cheese at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 no lemon zest and juice both
  • 1/2 cup caster sugar

For the topping

  • 400 gms fresh strawberries
  • 2 tbsp strawberry jam

Instructions
 

To make the crust

  • Take all the dry ingredients for the crust in a mixing bowl. Melt butter and add tbsp by tbsp into the flour. First add 5 tbsp and then slowly add as required to bring the dough together.
  • Take an 8 or 9-inch pie tin and place the dough in the centre. Then using your fingers, spread the dough till you have reached the edges and the sides of the pie tin.
  • Take a fork and prick it in several places.
  • Place in a pre-heated oven at 175 degrees C for about 25 to 30 minutes or until the crust has browned (golden) and darker golden on the outside edges.
  • Let the crust cool down completely. It takes a good 15 to 20 minutes till it hardens. And you need to handle it carefully. No need to release it from the pie tin.

To make the filling

  • In a large mixing bowl, whisk together cream cheese. caster sugar, lemon juice and lemon rind.
  • In another mixing bowl, whip the heavy cream till you have formed stiff peaks.
  • Add the whipped cream to the cream cheese and fold everything together till they have both incorporated and formed a smooth filling.

Assembling the tart

  • Fill the crust with the cream cheese whipped cream filling. Smooth the top with a spatula.
  • Slice strawberries and decorate the top. You have to start from the outside edge and then keep coming in with the strawberries.
  • Take jam in a bowl and add a tbsp of hot water to make it a bit runny.
  • Brush the tops of the strawberries with the jam.
  • Keep it in the refrigerator to set. It takes about 4 hours to set well.
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