Orange Chocolate Fruit Tarts

Fruit tarts are one of my absolute favourite desserts. I've been craving for fruit tarts for the longest time ever and I just really really like fruit tarts for some odd reason! Canned fruit tarts, fresh fruit tarts.. so as long as they're fruit tarts, I love them all! 

So I took the opportunity to bake some Orange Chocolate Fruit Tarts along with a Mango Rose Tart using the same recipe! These mini fruit tarts are tiny and just perfect for a one bite snack! It uses a orange chocolate custard instead of the usual plain custard. I really love how it smells exactly like Van Houten's orange chocolate slices: 

Image taken from here.

These orange chocolates are my favourite among this range of chocolates and of course, I am delighted to share with you this recipe for orange chocolate custard for these Orange Chocolate Fruit Tarts. 

This recipe takes about 3 hours in all to complete and I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5. 

Super Awesome 10 Inch Mega Fruit Tart

Mummy didn't want a cake for Mum's Day so I decided to do her a Super Awesome 10 Inch Mega Fruit Tart! This was a recipe I did earlier on, the Mini Fruit Tarts. I'm really pleased at how pretty this looked and how good it actually tasted even though the custard was a lil' on the milkier side!

This took me about 4 hours to bake and put together 2 Super Awesome 10 Inch Mega Fruit Tart but effectively if you're just aiming to get one done, it should take only 2 hours (: Please halve the recipe if you're intending to just bake 1 tart!

I used the oven to bake this tart but I did try the small tarts with my Happy Call Pan and they baked well even though the tart was not totally brown. It also took a lesser time to bake the tarts but the only limitation is that the maximum size the Happy Call Pan can bake is about 5 inches. If you are baking on the Happy Call Pan, bake the tart on medium-low fire on 20 minutes or till pie crust is completely cooked. If you are baking a 5 inch tart, do use tools such as inverted shallow cupcake cups to "prop up" the tart to prevent 'almost' direct contact of heat. This will prevent the base of your tart from burning before it is cooked.

Super Awesome 10 Inch Mega Fruit Tart Recipe

This yields 2 10 inch fruit tarts

Ingredients:

PIE BASE

500g cake flour

150g icing sugar, sieved

250g butter, softened

150g whole eggs (about 3 medium sized eggs)

Some plain flour (5 tbsp or so)

Some beans for bind baking

(Rice, black beans, red beans, green beans.. any of these will do)

CUSTARD CREAM

10tbsp corn flour

5 egg yolks

12 1/3 tbsp sugar

500ml milk

GELATIN FRUIT GLAZE

100ml apple juice

2 tbsp gelatin

FRUITS

A punnet of strawberries

5 kiwis

A box of blueberries

1/2 can of canned peach

2 laffa limes