Fruit Tartlets Recipe

Fruit Tartlets Recipe

Try this delicious fresh fruit tartlets recipe. This French Fruit Tart has a Sweet, buttery short crust that is filled with a rich cream cheese and topped with seasonal fresh fruit and topped with glaze.

Fruit Tartlets Recipe

Strawberry Jam Tarts

Ingredients for Pastry dough:

1. Plain flour – 8 ounce
2. Chilled butter – 4 ounce
3. Caster sugar – 2 tbsp
4. Cold water – 3 to 4 tbsp

Ingredients For Filling:

1. Cream cheese – 8 ounce
2. Lemon juice – 1 tsp
3. Ground sugar – 2 tbsp
4. Fruit cocktail or fresh fruit – 1 cup
5. Apricot jam – as required (to glaze)

Method:

• For the pastry, in flour, add butter; rub it in until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
• Add in sugar and enough cold water to bind to pliable dough.
• Wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough as thinly as possible, with the help of butter paper, and using a pastry cutter, cut in rounds.
• Press the rounds in a tartlet tin, prick, then place butter paper, spread some kidney beans as a weight and bake at 200º C for 10 minutes.
• Then remove butter paper and kidney beans, before again baking until it’s light golden.
• Let it cool on a wire rack. For the filling, beat cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice, divide it between the tartlets and arrange fruit over.
• Melt apricot jam and sieve it. Brush over the fruits and serve immediately.