Mini Fruit Tarts – My Baking Dependancy

With a crisp tart shell, vanilla filling, and contemporary 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 truffles, 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 vibrant, contemporary fruit, they’re a complete lot of goodness in a single chew (or two).

Since I made these throughout the summer season I used to be in a position to make use of a complete number of my favourite fruits, however I can’t wait to strive 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! 

Lovely 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 best way 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 once you need company 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 company can be speaking about them for ages.

Every mini fruit tart has a crisp selfmade tart shell, a creamy vanilla pudding filling, and contemporary fruit on high. And that may sound sophisticated, however I promise you they’re surprisingly simple (and so enjoyable!) to make.

Tips on how to make mini fruit tarts

Simply by how fairly these bite-size beauties are, you most likely don’t consider 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. Do-it-yourself tart shells
2. Vanilla pudding filling
3. Recent fruit topping

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

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

It will make sufficient dough for 18 mini tart shells. 

As traditional, be sure you are aware of methods 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 selfmade vanilla pudding. It’s simple and scrumptious and will get rave critiques from readers. Even if you happen to’ve by no means made selfmade pudding earlier than, it’s price giving it a strive for these tarts.

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

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

The way you put together the fruits you’re utilizing will rely on their dimension. You’ll be able to go away blueberries entire, however ought to halve or quarter fruits like raspberries, blackberries, grapes, and cherries.

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

You’ll be able to 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.

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

Making these mini fruit tarts

If you’re nervous about making selfmade pie crust, I promise you that making these tart shells is means simpler. The dough doesn’t need to 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 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 effectively 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 not less than 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 prepare the contemporary 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

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

You should utilize mini phyllo shells rather than the selfmade tart shells. The flavour and texture can be completely 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 gives you a sugar cookie base as a substitute of a tart shell base.

You can additionally use your favourite boxed vanilla pudding combine as a substitute of creating the selfmade pudding for the filling. When you nonetheless wish to make the filling from scratch however desire a cream cheese model, strive the filling from my berry cookie cups.

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