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Ingredients
Pastry
- 70 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus extra for greasing
- 40 g sugar
- 2 eggs
- 100 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Filling
- 250 g sugar
- 1 lemon, zest only, no white pith
- 100 g unsalted butter, softened
- 250 g cream cheese, cut into pieces
- 7 eggs, separated
- 40 g lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon essence
- 1 tsp natural almond extract
- ¼ tsp fine salt
- 1000 g ricotta cheese
- 70 g cornflour (starch)
Lemon icing
- 100 g icing sugar
- 30 g lemon juice
- fresh blueberries, for garnishing
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 1683 kJ / 400 kcal
- Protein
- 12.4 g
- Carbohydrates
- 37.8 g
- Fat
- 23.1 g
- Fibre
- 0.3 g
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