Cremora Tart
No-bake dessert using non-dairy coffee creamer, condensed milk and lemon juice.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
Biscuit Base
- 1 packet Tennis biscuits, crushed see note
- 4 tbsp butter, melted I used 6 tablespoons of butter as I like a firmer base
Filling
- 250 g Cremora Or another non-dairy creamer
- 125 ml cold water (or ½ cup)
- 1 tin condensed milk (397g or 14oz)
- 125 ml lemon juice (fresh or bottled) (or ½ cup)
Instructions
Biscuit Base
- Mix the crushed biscuits and melted butter and press down into a 22cm tart dish or spring-form tin. Refrigerate while making the filling.
Filling
- Whisk the Cremora and the cold water together until all lumps have disappeared. It starts off looking very lumpy and crumbly. Just whisk a bit more and it will become more liquid and eventually the lumps will dissappear.
- Add the condensed milk and mix well.
- Add the lemon juice incrementally and whisk well after each addition. The filling thickens the more lemon juice you add.
- Pour the filling onto the biscuit base and refrigerate for at least one hour or overnight.
Notes
- Tennis biscuits are very South African and give the tart that familiar, coconut taste. Feel free to use other biscuits you like though.
- I reserve about two tablespoons of the base crumbs to sprinkle on top.
- The recipe can be made with bottled lemon juice. If you have fresh lemons at hand you can juice and zest two lemons and add some zest to the tart when adding the lemon juice.
- I also added a pinch of lemon zest to the crumbs I reserved for the topping.
- Some non-dairy creamers contain casein, a milk-derived protein. It is therefore not 100% vegan, but some vegans do use non-dairy creamer as milk replacement. I have attemped to make a vegan version of this tart by using Oreo biscuits and plant butter for the crust, and replacing the normal condensed milk with condensed oat milk. This worked very well and tasted very similar to the original version.
- The internet tells me that non-dairy creamer is seen as lactose-free despite the use of casein, but you should please double check your ingredients if you are aiming for a lactose-free fridge tart. You will also have to replace the biscuits, butter and condensed milk with approved lactose-free products.