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Lemon Blueberry Cream Tart

Prep25 min
Cook22 min
Total3 hr (incl. chilling)
YieldOne 9-inch tart · serves 8
DifficultyAdvanced

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cupsall-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cuppowdered sugar
  • 1/4 tspfine salt
  • 1/2 cupcold unsalted butter, cubed
  • 1large egg yolk
  • 8 ozcream cheese, softened
  • 1/3 cuppowdered sugar (for filling)
  • 1/2 cupheavy cream, cold
  • 2 tbsplemon juice
  • 1 tbsplemon zest (about 2 lemons)
  • 2 cupsfresh blueberries≈ 198 median blueberries
  • 2 tbspblueberry jam or apricot jam (for glaze)

Steps

  1. Pulse flour, powdered sugar, and salt in a food processor. Add butter and pulse to coarse crumbs, then add the yolk and pulse until the dough clumps.
  2. Press the dough evenly into a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom, going up the sides. Freeze 15 minutes.
  3. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C). Prick the base with a fork and bake 20–22 minutes, until golden. Cool completely.
  4. Beat cream cheese with 1/3 cup powdered sugar until smooth. Add lemon juice and zest.
  5. In a separate bowl, whip the cold cream to stiff peaks, then fold into the cream cheese mixture.
  6. Spread the filling into the cooled shell and arrange blueberries over the top in a single tight layer.
  7. Warm the jam with 1 teaspoon of water and brush over the berries for shine.
  8. Chill at least 2 hours before removing the ring and slicing.

Notes

  • The shell must be fully cool before filling or the cream will slide.
  • Skip the glaze if serving within the hour; it mainly protects the berries overnight.
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A 100-gram serving of blueberries contains roughly 160 mg of anthocyaninsLaid end-to-end at 12.7 mm apiece, it would take about 30 billion berries to reach the MoonThe world's largest blueberry weighed 16.2 grams — a Guinness record set in Australia in 2020Wild lowbush blueberries are about 40% smaller than cultivated highbush onesThe United States and Canada together produce roughly half of the world's cultivated blueberriesA 100-gram serving of blueberries contains roughly 160 mg of anthocyaninsLaid end-to-end at 12.7 mm apiece, it would take about 30 billion berries to reach the MoonThe world's largest blueberry weighed 16.2 grams — a Guinness record set in Australia in 2020Wild lowbush blueberries are about 40% smaller than cultivated highbush onesThe United States and Canada together produce roughly half of the world's cultivated blueberries