Fruit Pie Recipe (Mini Fruit tart)
March 15, 2018
Prep time: 20 mins
Baking time: 40 mins
Ingredients for 3 mini tarts
For Pastry Crust:
2 cups flour
150g unsalted butter(room temperature)
1 egg
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
pinch of salt
For Pastry Cream:
4 eggs yolk
2 cups milk
1 vanilla pod
70g Butter(room temperature)
3/4 cup sugar
3 Tbsp corn starch
For decoration:
1 Kiwi fruit
5 Strawberries
9 raspberries
The way:
– In a bowl place all the crust ingredients and mix all together until you have a crumbled dough.
– Place it in a plastic wrap and gather it simply as a ball, chill for 30 minutes.
– Meanwhile, preheat oven at 200°c and place rack in center of oven.
– Cut the dough into 3 equal balls, epread each dough then place it in a 12 cm removable bottom tart pan, lightly prick bottom of pastry crust with the tines of a fork. Bake it for 20 minutes or until light golden coulr.
– To prepare the pastry cream pour the milk into a saucepan add sugar and the beans of vanilla pod includ the whole vanilla pod, bring it to boiling(just until milk foam up).
– In a large bowl whisk the eggs with corn starch, then pour gradually the hot milk whisking constantly to prevent curdling , pour back the mixtur to the same saucepan place it in a medium heat, whisk until thicken ( remove the vanilla pod) then add the butter until melted.
– Place the cream pastry into a bowl cover the top with plastic wrap cool at room temperature.
– Let the crust cool down then spread the pastry cream onto the bottom of the tart shell.
– Decorate with fruits, chill until serving.
Enjoy!
