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:
- Plain flour β 8 ounce
- Chilled butter β 4 ounce
- Caster sugar β 2 tbsp
- Cold water β 3 to 4 tbsp
Ingredients For Filling:
- Cream cheese β 8 ounce
- Lemon juice β 1 tsp
- Ground sugar β 2 tbsp
- Fruit cocktail or fresh fruit β 1 cup
- Apricot jam β 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 200ΒΊ C for 10 minutes.
- Then remove butter paper and kidney beans, before again baking until itβs 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.
1 comment
Nice recipe.