10 Minute Fruit Tart Recipes

Steps:

• For the crust: In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the salt, egg and cream; beat until incorporated. Add the flour and beat until a dough comes together. Form the dough into a disc and then press it evenly into the bottom and up the sides of a 10-inch tart pan with a removable bottom; if necessary, use a piece of plastic wrap to help keep the dough from sticking. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour, or freeze for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line the tart crust with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake until the edges of the crust look set and just barely golden, about 15 minutes. Carefully remove the foil and pie weights, and continue to bake until the crust is golden brown all over, about 20 minutes more. Cool completely.
• For the filling: In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla, and beat with an electric mixer until soft and very creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the cream and continue beating until the mixture holds stiff peaks, stopping occasionally to scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula, 2 to 3 minutes more.
• Spoon the cream cheese mixture into the cooled tart shell and smooth with an offset spatula. Top with the berries.
• Combine the apricot preserves and a splash of water in a small bowl and microwave until warm, about 45 seconds. Strain through a sieve into another bowl. Gently brush or spoon the apricot glaze over the berries.
• Serve the tart immediately, or refrigerate for up to 3 hours.

Steps:

• Mix water and vanilla extract together in a small bowl.
• Stir 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour, sugar, and salt together in a medium bowl. Cut in butter until mixture forms fine crumbs. Do not overmix, or pastry will be tough. Stir in enough vanilla water to pull dough together. Chill for 15 minutes.
• Roll dough out into a 12-inch circle. Gently transfer to an 11-inch tart pan. Pat dough into place, cutting off edges and aligning pastry along the edges of the pan. Freeze pastry shell until firm, at least 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Bake pastry shell in the preheated oven until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Prick any large bubbles with the tip of a knife. Allow to cool completely.
• Meanwhile, make the filling. Beat cream in a chilled glass or metal bowl with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Beat sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla extract in a separate bowl until smooth. Fold in whipped cream.
• Spread filling into the cooled tart shell, smoothing out to reach the edges. Arrange mandarin oranges, strawberries, kiwi slices, and berries over the top, covering as much of the filling as possible. Serve immediately or store in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• PASTRY:.
• Combine flour, sugar and salt and place in freezer for 30 minutes.
• Cut butter into 1/4" pieces.
• Put flour mxiture in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade.
• Add butter and pulse about 10 times until butter forms small bits. Add ice water and process until dough comes together. Place on a well-floured board and form into a disc.
• Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 to 45 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375ºF.
• Remove dough from refrigerator and let sit 5 minutes.
• Roll dough into 1/16" thick circle, large enough to hang slightly over the sides of a 10" tart pan with removable bottom.
• Place dough in pan and cut off excess dough with a sharp knife or your thumb.
• Line tart shell with aluminum foil, then fill with dried beans or rice.
• Bake 10 minutes. Remove beans and foil; prick bottom of a shell with tines of fork to allow steam to eascape.
• Bake another 20 minutes until browned. Cool to room temperature.
• PASTRY CREAM:.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment(or using a hand held mixer), beat egg yolks and sugar on medium-speed about 3 minutes, until mixture is light yellow and falls back into bowl in a ribbon. On low speed, beat in cornstarch.
• In a large saucepan, bring milk to a simmer. Slowly pour milk into egg mxiture, whisking steadily, then pour back into saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a whisk or a wooden spoon until mixture is thick, about 4 minutes.
• Bring to a boil and cook then on low heat 2-3 more minutes. (Taste to be sure cornstach is cooked.).
• Remove from heat; mix in butter, vanilla, cream and cognac. Pour through a strainer into a bowl.
• Place plastic wrap directly onto custard(so it won't form a skin) and refrigerate until cold.
• ASSEMBLY & GARNISHES:.
• Place baked tart shell on serving plate and spread with pastry cream over bottom of shell.
• Slice and group fruit to make casual arrangement. Place larger fruit first, then fill spaces with berries &/or grapes. Use colorful fruit, such as halved strawberries or a grouping of raspberries, near the center for focus and height.
• (other fruit garnishes besides the ones listed above -- fresh orange, sliced or fresh lime, sliced or fresh apricot, sliced or fresh peach, sliced).
• Place sprinkling of almonds over tart, and use oranges &/or limes to garnish.
• GLAZE:.
• In small saucepan(or microwave-safe bowl), melt jelly with 1 tablespoon water.
• Brush glaze over fruit and serve as soon as possible to avoid soggy pastry.
• *TIP: Don't be afraid to be creative, this is the perfect palette!

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• To make the pastry, place the flour, salt, sugar and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer. Use a dough hook at low speed and mix until it is the consistency of cornmeal, about eight minutes. Add the ice water a tablespoon at a time. When the pastry becomes elastic and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, it is blended. Remove the pastry to a lightly floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with waxed paper and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Roll out the pastry dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of a quarter inch. Set six five-inch fluted, loose-bottomed tart pans together to form a rectangle. Lift the dough and place it loosely over the tart pans. Gently press the dough into the pans and roll firmly over the pans with a rolling pin. Remove the excess dough and line the bottom and corners with the dough. Prick the dough surface with a fork. Line the pastry with foil and weigh down with aluminum baking weights or dry beans.
• Place the tart shells on a baking sheet and bake for eight to 10 minutes or until the dough begins to release from the sides of the pans. Remove the weights and foil and bake for another eight minutes or until the pastry is lightly browned. Remove and cool on a rack.
• To prepare the cream, bring the water to a simmer in the lower part of a double boiler. In the upper part of the boiler, whisk the egg yolks and sugar off the heat until the mixture becomes thick and lemon colored.
• Dissolve the arrowroot with the milk and add it to the egg mixture. Set the mixture over the bottom pan and whisk in the liqueur and vanilla. Continue whisking until the mixture becomes thick, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat, bruise the mint and add to the cream mixture. Cool over a bowl of ice, whisking constantly. Cover and refrigerate until ready to assemble the tarts.
• When the shells have cooled, remove the tart pan collars and bottoms. Stir the pastry cream and divide among the pastry shells. Tightly fill each pastry shell with one layer of berries.
• In a small saucepan, melt the currant jelly with one tablespoon of water over medium-low heat. Brush the melted jelly over the berries. Set aside until ready to serve. Do not refrigerate.

Steps:

• Make pudding according to package directions and let stand 5 minutes. Stir orange zest into the pudding. Spread a thin layer of preserves across the bottom of graham cracker crust. Top with pudding. Arrange fruit on pudding, then sprinkle pie with mint, if desired.Source: foodnetwork.comRecipe formatted with the Cook'n Recipe Software from DVO Enterprises.

Steps:

• Start by making the cream filling, you need this chilled to finish your tarts.
• Bring milk to just under a boil, in a heavy bottomed pan. Meanwhile mix egg yolks and sugar together in a heat proof bowl until it resembles a paste.
• Sift flour and cornstarch into eggs. Stir into eggs, the eggs will be like a thick. Paste. Stir out any lumps.
• add a small stream of the scalded milk to eggs,being careful not to add too much, as the eggs will cook and curdle.
• once the egg mixture is tempered, put the eggs/milk mixture into the pan with the rest of the milk, on medium heat. Stir or whisk constantly. The flour and starch will quickly thicken the creme. Do not stop stirring. Make sure you leave the creme to come to a boil, and big bubbles come to the top. Boil for at least 2 minutes, otherwise your creme will taste like flour, and will thin after cooling.
• Remove from heat, whisk in vanilla and brandy or other liqueur.
• Put into clean container and cover surface with plastic wrap so that a skin does not form.
• chill.
• Whisk again, or beat with an immersion blender just before assembling your tarts.
• Make pastry dough.
• I use a mixer.
• Beat butter until soft.
• add sugar, beat till light and fluffy.
• Add 1 egg, slightly beaten, mix until just incorporated.
• Whisk salt into flour.
• add flour and salt to mixer all at once and continue to mix on low speed until the mixture forms a ball.
• Divide dough into 6 equal size balls. Press each ball into about a 5 inch disk. Wrap each one in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
• wit your fingers press the disk into the tart pans, going up the sides. The dough should come up and over the sides, trim excess with a knife. The crust will be about a quarter of an inch, make sure there us no space between the bottom and sides. Repeat for all 6.The
• prick the bottoms with a fork.
• Cover and put in freezer for 30 minutes.
• Bake on a cookie sheet in 350 degree oven for 17 minutes. They should be golden brown. Let cool.
• For glaze.
• heat apricot preserves in microwave until bubbly. Use a strainer and a spoon to make sure you remove any chunks from preserve.
• Glaze empty tart shells with apricot jelly.
• For topping.
• Slice kiwi fruit, arrange clean berries by type.
• Assembly.
• Remove tarts from pans and put on serving plates.
• Whisk creme. Fill each tart shell with creme, top with fruit, glaze fruit with pastry brush.
• Cover till ready to serve. Can be made hours ahead and kept in cool or refrigerator.

Steps:

• Combine butter and cream cheese for crust in a mixing bowl and mix until smooth. Gradually stir in flour and salt until well blended. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour.
• Remove dough from the refrigerator and place on a floured surface. Divide dough evenly into 24 pieces; shape each piece into a ball.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 24-cup mini-muffin tin with cooking spray.
• While the oven is preheating, press dough onto the bottoms and up the sides of the greased muffin cups. Place the pan on a cookie sheet and set aside.
• Combine milk, cream, and salt for filling in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture begins to bubble around the edges of the pan and wisps of steam are visible, about 3 minutes.
• Stir sugar and egg together in a bowl. Pour 1/4 of the hot milk mixture into the bowl and stir until well combined. Pour the egg mixture into the saucepan and continue to cook and stir until mixture is bubbling and has thickened slightly, about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in vanilla. Spoon about 1 tablespoon filling into each muffin cup.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Lower the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue baking until filling is set, about 15 more minutes. Remove from the oven and set on a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes. Remove tarts from the pan and place directly on the wire rack; let cool for 20 minutes.
• Place 1 teaspoon raspberry preserves on top of 8 tarts, then top each with a raspberry. Make remaining tarts by topping 8 with blueberry preserves and blueberries, and the remaining 8 with pineapple preserves and banana slices. Serve at room temperature.

Steps:

• Make pudding according to package directions and let stand 5 minutes. Stir orange zest into the pudding. Spread a thin layer of preserves across the bottom of graham cracker crust. Top with pudding. Arrange fruit on pudding, then sprinkle pie with mint, if desired.Source: foodnetwork.comRecipe formatted with the Cook'n Recipe Software from DVO Enterprises.