Fruit Tart Recipe Without Cream Cheese Easy
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An easy fruit tart recipe that's colorful and made with an incredible buttery sweet crust, mascarpone filling and your favorite fruit assortment.
This easy fruit tart is slightly different from the classic French fruit tart. French fruit tarts are usually made with a pate sucree or sweet tart dough and filled with whipped cream mixed with traditional pastry cream, a type of custard. While these are delicious, they are a little more complex to make.
The Crumbly Shortbread Crust
This fresh fruit tart is made with an easy shortbread crust that can be made without a mixer and will absolutely just melt in your mouth. It has a crumbly soft texture that's almost like a cookie. Yes, there is a lot of butter in there, but you will not regret the taste!
To make the dough, it's important to use softened butter! This will allow you to easily mix the butter with the sugar and egg. Once you form the dough into a ball, you can press it into your tart pan. I chose to use 6 smaller tart pans but I have also used a 13x4 inch rectangular tart pan.
Once the crust is in the pan, make sure you poke it all over the bottom and sides with a fork. This keeps the crust from getting too puffy in the oven. Bake the crusts for 10-12 minutes at 350°F and let them cool.
The crust can also be made ahead of time and stored in an airtight container if you want to fill them the next day.
The Simple Filling
The filling is a simple mixture of mascarpone cheese and whipped cream, flavored with some vanilla and sugar. The whipped cream lightens up the filling, but if you want to skip it, you can try doubling the amount of mascarpone instead. I used only mascarpone mixed with lemon in my strawberry tart and it worked perfectly.
Feel free to add other flavorings to it also such as lemon zest or a splash of your favorite liqueur!
Fruit Topping
Top it with whatever combination of fruit you prefer! Berries, kiwis, pineapples, orange slices! Just make sure that you pat dry your berries before using them or the color will run into the filling making it look less pretty.
I also highly recommend adding a fruit tart glaze to finish it off. It's completely optional but it makes the tart look professional and also adds an appetizing shine to the fruit.
Ingredients
For the crust
- 11 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
For the Filling
- ½ cup mascarpone
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup confectioners sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- Assortment of fresh fruits
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar until well blended with a large wooden spoon. Beat in the yolk and salt.
- Add the flour to the butter and mix until the dough comes together. You may need to use your hands.
- Press the dough into a mound. Transfer the dough to a 13 by 4 inch rectangular tart pan with a removable bottom. Alternatively you can divide the dough into six 4 inch diameter mini tart pans.
- Press the dough evenly into the bottom and sides of the pan. Remove any excess dough from the rim of the pan. Using a fork, poke holes all over the dough to prevent it from puffing up.
- Place the tart pan on a baking sheet and bake on a lower rack for about 10-12 minutes. Cool completely.
- In a large bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer, whip the heavy cream to stiff peaks. Set aside the cream.
- Beat the mascarpone cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer paddle or a hand mixer until smooth and creamy.
- Gently fold the whipped cream into the cheese mix.
- Spread the filling mixture into the cooled tart crusts. Top the filling with fresh fruit arrangements.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: ½ small tart
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 317 Total Fat: 23g Saturated Fat: 14g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 7g Cholesterol: 80mg Sodium: 135mg Carbohydrates: 25g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 12g Protein: 3g
This nutrition information is only an approximate provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. Information comes from Nutritionix, an automated nutrition calculator.
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