Reduced Fat Key Lime Tart (adapted from a Cooking Light recipe)
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 8 hourshours20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 22 minutesminutes
Total Time 8 hourshours42 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Author Cookie Madness
Ingredients
Crust:
⅓cupbutterroom temp
¼cuppacked dark brown sugar
¼teaspoonsalt
¼teaspoonground mace or freshly ground nutmeg
1cupall-purpose flourvery lightly spooned and swept
Filling:
1cuplowfat cottage cheese
1cupgranulated sugar
2tablespoonsall purpose flour
1tablespoonlime zest
3 ½tablespoonskey lime juice
¼teaspoonbaking powder
1large egg
1large egg white
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°. Spray a 9 inch removable bottom tart pan with cooking spray.
Prepare crust. Place first 4 ingredients in a large bowl, and beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth. Add flour to butter mixture, and beat at low speed until well-blended (or just stir it in by hand). Press crust into prepared tart pan.
To prepare filling, place cottage cheese in a food processor; process 2 minutes or until smooth, scraping sides of bowl once. Add 1 cup granulated sugar and remaining ingredients, and process until well-blended. Pour filling over crust. Bake at 350° for 20 22 minutes or until set (the edges will get lightly browned), and cool on a wire rack. Remove sides of pan and chill for 8 hours.