Lemon Tarts!

Hello!

Today I have a recipe for some yummy lemon tarts!

Ingredients

• 100g plain flour
• 50g butter
• Water
• Rice or baking beans
• 12 teaspoons of your jam of choice or lemon curd

Firstly, you'll need to grease a cupcake tray and preheat your oven to about 180 degrees.

Measure your flour into a bowl and add in your butter (it helps if you cut it up into small cubes). You need to rub in the butter using the tips of you thumb and fingers until the mixture looks a bit like breadcrumbs. You could also add some sugar if you want the pastry to be a bit sweeter!

Next, add water, no more than a tablespoon at a time and mix. Continue adding the water until your mixture forms a dough. If you add too much water just add some more flour!

Place your dough on a floured surface, roll out flat.

Cut out circles of your pastry to put in each hole of the cupcake tray. You should be able to make about 12 tarts from this mixture.

Take some greaseproof paper and cut out a small square big enough for one of the tarts, put this over the tart and then add some baking beans or if you don't have any, you can just use rice! These tarts will need to go in the oven to blind bake for ten minutes.

After ten minutes, take the tray out of the oven, remove the greaseproof paper with the rice or beans and add a teaspoon of your chosen jam or lemon curd to each tart. This will then need to go back in the oven for another five minutes.

Your lemon or jam tarts are now done! Let them cool and then enjoy them, they're especially nice with some vanilla ice cream, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries!

I hope you like this post, let me know what you think if you try making your own!

Lots of love, 

Emma xxx