Lemon Tart

Another recipe from the Silver Spoon cookbook. I have to say I was disappointed in the filling -- maybe I used the wrong pan tho, because I used a removable bottom tart pan and my filling leaked out. My bottom crust was very soggy and the filling was very concentrated because so much leaked out. But it was extremely tasty!

Here is the crust. I am going to use it for a lot of things. Oddly, there was no water in the recipe. I had to add some! It wouldn't hold together with just butter and egg yolks. It contained a lot of sugar, and lemon peel as well.


Even adding a scant 1/4 cup of ice water, it was still crumbly.


Here is the filling, basically butter, eggs, sugar, lemon juice and lemon peel.


Baked. You can see the second pie plate under to catch what leaked out.


Dusted w/ confectioner's sugar.


Food porn close-up!

Pumpkin Pie

I had some leftover pate sucre from making a strawberry custard tart a while ago. I found low-fat sweetened condensed milk and some pumpkin on sale at the grocery store, so pie it is!

Pie crust does not have to be round!! Really...!


Pumpkin, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, 2 eggs, and sweetened condensed milk. Topped with pie crust cutouts dusted with cinnamon.


Fresh from the oven!