Ingredients
Shortcrust pastry:
- 225g cake flour
- 1ml salt
- 150g butter, cubed
- 10ml castor sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 15ml water, iced
- 5ml lemon juice
Lemon curd mascarpone:
- 40g butter, softened
- 115g castor sugar
- 50ml lemon juice
- 2 lemons, zest
- 2 eggs, large
- 8ml corn flour
- 250ml cream, whipped
- 250g mascarpone cream
- 20g icing sugar
Assembly:
- 100g kiwi fuit
- 100g strawberries
- 100g mandarins
- 100g raspberries
- 50g blueberries
- 50g gooseberries
Preparation method
Shortcrust pastry:
- Preheat oven to 200 C
- Sift flour into a bowl and add salt
- Rub the butter into the flour, until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs
- Add sugar and mix egg yolk, water and lemon juice into dry ingredients to make a stiff dough
- Knead the dough well to combine
- Wrap the dough in cling film and chill in refrigerator for about 1 hour
- Place the dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll out to a thickness of 4mm
- Fit the dough in a 26cm removable fluted tart pan
- Gently lift edges of the dough and lightly press the bottom rim and flutes in, trimming off the edges
- Prick base with a fork several times and pace in fridge for 30 minutes
- Line base of dough with baking paper and fill with baking beans
- Bake blind in oven for 15 minutes
- Remove baking beans and baking paper and bake for 5-10 minutes or until golden brown
- Remove from oven and set aside to cool, before removing pastry from pan
Lemon curd mascarpone:
- Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and whisk together over medium heat
- Stir constantly, until the mixture begins to thicken
- Pour mixture into a bowl, through a sieve
- Cover the surface with cling wrap, and leave to cool
- Refrigerate to cool completely
- Whisk the cream until firm peaks
- Beat in the softened mascarpone cheese and icing sugar
- Fold into the lemon curd
Assembly:
- Remove pastry from the fluted tart pan and place on serving tray
- Transfer mascarpone cream into a piping bag and fill the pastry case
- Arrange the fruits over the mascarpone, starting from the outside, moving to the centre