Mini Fruit Tarts – My Baking Habit

With a crisp tart shell, vanilla filling, and recent fruit topping, these mini fruit tarts are as scrumptious as they’re lovely.

Lengthy-time MBA readers understand how a lot I like mini desserts. I’ve made all types of mini cheesecakes, mini bundt desserts, and even mini cinnamon rolls through the years. 

These mini fruit tarts are my latest mini dessert love affair. With the buttery tart shell, luscious vanilla pudding, and vibrant, recent fruit, they’re a complete lot of goodness in a single chunk (or two).

Since I made these throughout the summer time I used to be ready to make use of a complete number of my favourite fruits, however I can’t wait to attempt a berry model, a tropical fruit model, and even a citrusy model throughout the winter months.

It’s like having a number of recipes multi functional! 

Stunning and scrumptious mini fruit tarts

When you’re searching for a showstopper dessert, these mini fruit tarts are for you.

There are many instances when an enormous dessert, like my strawberry tart or coconut cream pie, is the way in which to go. However different instances, bite-size is what you need.

I make my mini fruit tarts in a mini muffin tin, so every one is only one or two bites. They’re good for setting out at cookouts, child or bridal showers, or vacation events if you need friends to have the ability to serve themselves and pattern as many desserts as they like.

Think about placing a platter of those subsequent to mini pecan pies or mini pumpkin pies throughout the holidays! Your friends can be speaking about them for ages.

Every mini fruit tart has a crisp do-it-yourself tart shell, a creamy vanilla pudding filling, and recent fruit on prime. And which may sound sophisticated, however I promise you they’re surprisingly simple (and so enjoyable!) to make.

Find out how to make mini fruit tarts

Simply by taking a look at how fairly these bite-size beauties are, you in all probability don’t imagine me that they’re simple to make. However I’ll stroll you thru the entire course of!

What you’ll want

There are three elements to this recipe:

1. Home made tart shells
2. Vanilla pudding filling
3. Contemporary fruit topping

For the tart dough, we tailored the dough from my good friend Megan’s lemon tart recipe. You’ll want:

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
• ½ teaspoon superb sea salt
• 12 tablespoons chilly unsalted butter, reduce into items
• 3 tablespoons milk

This may make sufficient dough for 18 mini tart shells. 

As common, be sure you are aware of the best way to measure flour earlier than you get began. You wish to make certain your measurements are correct so these tart shells come out good each time.

For the filling, I like to make use of my do-it-yourself vanilla pudding. It’s simple and scrumptious and will get rave evaluations from readers. Even if you happen to’ve by no means made do-it-yourself pudding earlier than, it’s price giving it a attempt for these tarts.

For the topping, we’ll want about 2 cups of varied recent fruit. A few of my favourite fruits for these tarts embody:

• Berries, reminiscent of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries
• Peaches
• Plums
• Cherries
• Kiwi
• Grapes
• Mango

The way you put together the fruits you might be utilizing will depend upon their measurement. You may go away blueberries entire, however ought to halve or quarter fruits like raspberries, blackberries, grapes, and cherries.

Bigger fruits, reminiscent of strawberries, kiwi, and peaches, will be reduce right into a small cube.

You may optionally glaze the tops of the tarts with a little bit of apricot preserves. This may give the tops of the tarts a shiny look.

When you don’t wish to try this step otherwise you don’t have any apricot preserves readily available, be at liberty to skip it. The tarts might be simply as scrumptious with or with out it!

Making these mini fruit tarts

In case you are nervous about making do-it-yourself pie crust, I promise you that making these tart shells is means simpler. The dough doesn’t must be rolled out and is means much less finicky than common pie dough!

Utilizing a meals processor, pulse collectively the flour, sugar, salt, and chilly butter. You need the combination to resemble coarse meal.

Pour in half of the milk and pulse till the dough comes collectively right into a ball. You would possibly want so as to add extra of the milk, however achieve this only a splash at a time. You need the dough to be pliable however not moist.

I like to make use of a small cookie scoop to scoop 1-tablespoon parts of the tart dough into every nicely of a 24-well mini muffin tin. 

Now, use your fingers to press the dough evenly into the wells, alongside the bottoms and up the perimeters. Let the pan chill within the fridge for at the least half-hour earlier than baking.

When able to bake the tart shells, poke the bottoms of every shell just a few instances with a fork. Bake at 350°F for 13-16 minutes; you need the sides of the shells to be golden.

Let the shells cool within the pan utterly earlier than utilizing a small offset spatula to softly carry them out and onto a platter or wire rack.

Fill every shell with a beneficiant teaspoon of pudding and organize the recent fruit on prime as desired.

If you wish to glaze the tarts, combine the apricot preserves with 1 teaspoon of water and microwave for 15-30 seconds, simply till melted. Gently brush this combination over the fruit.

Serve the mini fruit tarts instantly or retailer them within the fridge till able to serve, ideally the identical day they’re assembled.

Variation concepts

When you love the thought of those mini fruit tarts however don’t have time to make the shells and the pudding from scratch, you might have a few choices.

You should use mini phyllo shells instead of the do-it-yourself tart shells. The flavour and texture might be totally different from the buttery tart dough, however they work nice in a pinch!

Another choice is to press sugar cookie dough into the mini muffin wells. This provides you with a sugar cookie base as a substitute of a tart shell base.

You could possibly additionally use your favourite boxed vanilla pudding combine as a substitute of creating the do-it-yourself pudding for the filling. When you nonetheless wish to make the filling from scratch however need a cream cheese model, attempt the filling from my berry cookie cups.

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