How to make a fruit tart - easy video recipe
Hello and welcome to in the kitchen with matt, I am your host matt taylor.
Today I am going to show you how to make a fruit tart.
Mmm, fruit tarts are super yummy, super delicious, and this one is really easy to make.
I had a request to make a video on fruit tarts, so here it is.
Let's get started.
For our tools and ingredients, we have a food processor, a hand mixer, and I will put links
on these down below in the description in case you want to pick one of these up.
I have a pastry roller, rubber spatula, our tart pan, this is a 9-inch pan but you can
use a 12-inch pan as well.
I have some scissors, a zip locked bag, a knife, and a basting brush, and for the pastry
dough we have 1 and ? cups of flour, ? cup of powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon of granulated
sugar, ? cup or 12 tablespoons of softened unsalted butter.
For the toppings we are going to lay down a nice cream cheese layer, for that we are
going to use 8 ounces of softened cream cheese, ? cup of granulated sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla
extract.
For our fruit toppings we have a kiwi, which we will peel, and slice, we got blueberries,
raspberries, strawberries that we will slice, and strawberry preserves, which we will heat
up, in the microwave and we will baste it on the fruit and it will give it a nice shine,
and it will be awesome.
Now you can use whatever toppings you like, whatever fruit you want to make it your own.
My favorite toppings are these right here, so that is what we are going to use for this
one.
All right, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Ok let's go ahead and make our pastry dough or our crust.
First lets go ahead and add our butter, our sugar, powdered sugar, and our flour, just
add it all together.
And you can do this in a bowl with a hand mixer or stand mixer if you want.
And then we will just pulse it.
It will get nice and crumbly, and that's what we want to see, so that is ready to go.
And now we will add our crumbled pastry, we are going to add it to our pan here, and I
am not going to add the whole thing, because this recipe is for a 12-inch tart pan.
So if you use the whole amount in a 9 inch it is going to be really thick, but if you
like that that is great, but I am going to for a little bit thinner pastry.
So we just put it in here and we just smash it down.
And then we are going to push it up with our fingers, on the sides like that.
We might add a little bit more, and then you come here with your thumb and just push that
together.
And I usually wind up adding a little bit more to the side just to get it a little thicker
on the sides.
You can even come in here with your roller, your pastry roller, not necessary but it helps
to make it get nice and flat, and even.
And you can push it up like that; I will add a little bit more, and what you can do with
the rest of this, if you don't use, if you use a 9inch and don't use a 12 inch you will
have some left over, what you can do is fill up little paper cups and make mini tarts.
So we will go ahead and continue pushing this down on the sides and we are going to get
the sides a little thicker here.
And you just keep working with it, until it gets all pressed firming in there.
If you want the sides to go all the way up just go ahead and add some more, or just come
in here and push it up some more.
Ok and once we are done with that, we are going to go ahead and put this in the oven
and bake it at 350 degrees, it will be 10 to 14 minutes depending on your oven.
And we will make it so it is nice and slightly golden brown.
All right I have taken it out of the oven.
As you can see I have 6 small little tarts that I made with the leftover tart dough.
Then you let this sit for 20 to 30 minutes until it cools completely.
Let's go ahead and make our cream cheese filling.
You can also make a custard if you want, but the cream cheese filling is super easy to
make and tastes yummy so that is what I went with.
Go ahead and add our sugar to the softened cream cheese, and then our vanilla extract.
Now let's go ahead and mix this together.
And then we will scrape the sides, just one time.
And you just beat it for about a minute or so, until it looks like that.
Nice and smooth, ok we want to make sure to clean off the beaters as best as we can, we
don't want to waste any of it.
You can also, just go ahead and lick the beater if you want.
Yummy.
Ok so I just scooped all the cream cheese filling and put it in this bag, And then what
we will do is just snip it, and we will use this to put this on.
You could just use your spatula and spread it on, um but I like to use this, it gives
me a lot more control and makes it a lot more even, but you can do it how you want.
Okay, and then what I do so I don't forget these little ones, I will just go ahead and
put a little bit on, right in the middle.
Now we will go ahead and start in on this, and I just go in a circle, then go ahead in
a circle like this, it just kind of helps to distribute it evenly, but you can just
use your spatula, like I have been saying, could just use your spatula, but I like little
piping bags, piping bags are cool.
Ok, and we are going to spread it out, we will spread it out, ok, and then we will go
ahead and take our spatula and just spread it around.
Okay like that.
Now let's go ahead and decorate it with our toppings, I like to start with strawberries
and line the edges, like that, and then overlap just the tips, ok now that I have my strawberries
down, I am going to come in here with my kiwi slices half slices, go ahead and put those
around.
Okay then I want to go ahead and do another layer of strawberries, because I love strawberries.
Then what I do at this point is put raspberries in the middle.
And then I like to fill in the gaps with my blue berries, like where you see the white
gaps, go ahead and put blueberries in there.
And then you can put them all around the edge if you want, but I kind of like it just the
way it is.
Once we have all of our toppings on, it is time to do the glaze.
What I am going to do, is I am going to take this strawberry preserves, and I am going
to heat it up in the microwave for about 20 seconds and it will get nice and liquidly.
And then what I am going to do is take it and just baste it on the top of the fruit,
and it is going to make it look nice and shiny and add a little bit of sweetness.
On to that step.
Okay our strawberry preserves is nice and melted, and then what we are going to do is
just lightly brush it on.
You can also just sprinkle the top with powdered sugar if you want.
All right there we go, now our tarts are done, now to remove it, we just go ahead and push
the bottom, use one hand, and it will come right off like that, pretty cool.
And then sometimes, the bottom gets stuck underneath, and you will just get a cake spatula
like this, or one of those long flat ones, and just kind of go underneath it, and it
will slide right off, like that.
All right our fruit tart is done.
It looks fantastic.
It was really easy to do, using simple ingredients.
If I can do it, you can do it.
Also, it is very versatile, if you want to switch out the cream cheese filling you can
use a vanilla pudding, or chocolate pudding, or chocolate ganache, or custard, whatever
you want to do, the sky is the limit.
I am Matt Taylor this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt.
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Time for me to dive into one of these.
Now I am not going to cut into the big one, because I am going to give this away, but
I am going to grab this little guy right here, mmm mmm mmm.