Easy Fresh Fruit Tart

Name: Easy Fresh Fruit Tart
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 1 , (9½ by 9-inch) sheet puff pastry, thawed overnight in refrigerator; 2 teaspoons, sugar; 1/8 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 4 ounces, cream cheese, softened; 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons, strawberry jelly; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 3 cups, fresh berries

21 comments

Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2007

Desserts or Baked Goods

Fruit

Fruit Desserts

Tarts

We kept the puff pastry, "pastry cream," and fresh fruit of a classic French tart-but lost the tedious work.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME55 minutes plus, 1 hour cooling, 1 hour setting, and 30 minutes tempering

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

A fresh fruit tart seems like the perfect dessert—until you try to make one from scratch. From baking the crust to making the perfect pastry cream to arranging the berries with precision, fruit tart recipes just aren’t a lot of fun. We want...

This is a members' feature.