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Ricotta Tart Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 3/4 cups sugar
11 oz. (2 ¾ sticks) slightly softened unsalted butter, cut
2 egg yolks
4 cups cake flour
2 ½ lbs ricotta cheese
5 eggs slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups heavy cream

Directions:
Directions:
Combine ¾ cup sugar, butter and yolks, beat until smooth. Add flour cup at a time, beating until gathered in ball. Flatten into two disks, wrap in wax paper and refrigerate for forty minutes.
Heat oven to 500 degrees, roll out dough, place into spring form pan with dough coming up two inches. Repeat with second pan.
Beat together remaining sugar, ricotta, whole eggs, vanilla, and cream until well blended and smooth. Ladle filling into pans.
Bake ten minutes at 500 degrees, reduce to 300 degrees and bake for one hour and ten minutes, until top is puffed and golden. Transfer to rack and cool for ten minutes. Remove outer ring from pan, and cool tart to room temperature. Refrigerate. Serve with powdered sugar sprinkle on top.

 

 

 

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