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 stunning.

Lengthy-time MBA readers understand how a lot I like mini desserts. I’ve made every kind of mini cheesecakes, mini bundt muffins, and even mini cinnamon rolls over time. 

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

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

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

Stunning and scrumptious mini fruit tarts

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

There are many occasions when an enormous dessert, like my strawberry tart or coconut cream pie, is the way in which to go. However different occasions, 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 excellent for setting out at cookouts, child or bridal showers, or vacation events while you need visitors 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 through the holidays! Your visitors could be speaking about them for ages.

Every mini fruit tart has a crisp selfmade tart shell, a creamy vanilla pudding filling, and recent fruit on high. And which may sound sophisticated, however I promise you they’re surprisingly straightforward (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 most likely don’t imagine me that they’re straightforward to make. However I’ll stroll you thru the entire course of!

What you’ll want

There are three parts to this recipe:

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

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

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

It will make sufficient dough for 18 mini tart shells. 

As typical, be sure you are conversant in find out how to measure flour earlier than you get began. You wish to be sure your measurements are correct so these tart shells come out excellent each time.

For the filling, I like to make use of my selfmade vanilla pudding. It’s straightforward and scrumptious and will get rave evaluations from readers. Even for those who’ve by no means made selfmade 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 embrace:

• Berries, similar to strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries
• Peaches
• Plums
• Cherries
• Kiwi
• Grapes
• Mango

The way you put together the fruits you’re utilizing will rely upon their measurement. You possibly can depart blueberries complete, however ought to halve or quarter fruits like raspberries, blackberries, grapes, and cherries.

Bigger fruits, similar to strawberries, kiwi, and peaches, may be minimize right into a small cube.

You possibly can optionally glaze the tops of the tarts with a little bit of apricot preserves. It will give the tops of the tarts a shiny look.

In case you don’t wish to do this step otherwise you don’t have any apricot preserves readily available, be happy to skip it. The tarts shall be simply as scrumptious with or with out it!

Making these mini fruit tarts

In case you are nervous about making selfmade pie crust, I promise you that making these tart shells is method simpler. The dough doesn’t need to be rolled out and is method 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 may want so as to add extra of the milk, however accomplish that 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 a minimum of half-hour earlier than baking.

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

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

Fill every shell with a beneficiant teaspoon of pudding and organize the recent fruit on high 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

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

You should use mini phyllo shells instead of the selfmade tart shells. The flavour and texture shall be completely different from the buttery tart dough, however they work nice in a pinch!

An alternative choice is to press sugar cookie dough into the mini muffin wells. This offers you a sugar cookie base as an alternative of a tart shell base.

You could possibly additionally use your favourite boxed vanilla pudding combine as an alternative of constructing the selfmade pudding for the filling. In case you nonetheless wish to make the filling from scratch however desire a cream cheese model, attempt the filling from my berry cookie cups.

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