Caramel, Lemon curd, thyme meringue tart

We need a little treat now and than, nothing beats baking and watching people enjoy your creations ... this is purely why I am a pastry chef :)

Recipe

feeds - 12 tart size - 16cm

Sable tart base

200gm Unsalted Butter

75gm Icing Sugar

250gm Plain Flour

1/4 Teasp Vanilla Essence

Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla and slowly work in flour, wrap tightly in cling wrap and rest for 1 hour in fridge

Roll out sable pastry to 1/2 cm thickness and carefully line tart ring , prick with a fork and blind bakefor 15 to 20min at 180 degrees Celsius.

Lemon Curd

321g Lemon juice

12g Lemon zest

480g eggs

560g sugar

660g butter

Place everything besides butter in saucepan and cook all ingredients to 85 degrees strain and cool to 50 degrees then add the butter blitz with hand mixer and chill.

For thermomix - add everything besides butter and blitz together, place in butterfly, reverse, 90, for 18minutes.

pour into bowl to cool to 50, add back to thermomix and blitz in butter.

leave to cool in fridge

bitter butterscotch caramel

300g sugar

120g water

60g Glucose

220g cream

8g gelatine leaves softened

*cook sugar, water and glucose to a dark amber caramel

*warm cream

*deglaze caramel with cream

*whisk to ensure caramel is complely disolved into the cream.

*add the soaked gelatin

*leave to cool completly before pouring into tart shell

thyme Meringue

450 sugar

150g water

250g egg white

50g thyme

*place egg whites in kitchen aid bowl with whisk attachment

*Boil sugar and water to 121 degreese using a sugar thermometer

turn on kitchen aid to high and slowly start adding in the hot sugar

whip until bowl is room temp, fold in thyme

Assemble

*once tart shell is baked and cooled

*pour in 3/4 of the caramel & leave to set in fridge

*once caramel is set spoon in lemon curd & leave to set

*At this point I would make my meringue.

by the time your meringue is ready to place on top the layers should be set.

*spoon meringue on as you desire and blow torch :D:D

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