Mini Fruit Tarts

These Mini Fruit Tarts were my first attempt at baking any tarts.

Who can ever resist pretty fruit tarts with tasty custard and buttery tart?

This project takes about 4 hours and costs about $30.

Recipe Credits: The Kwoks Viewfinder

This blog post was previously cranky so here's a repost of it. (:

Mini Fruit Tarts Recipe

Ingredients

Tart Shell (Makes at least 50 mini tarts)

500 g cake flour

150g icing sugar

250g softened butter

150g whole eggs (About 3 medium sized eggs)

Custard cream

10 tbsp corn flour

5 egg yolks

12 1/3 tbsp sugar

500ml milk

1 punnet of strawberries

3 kiwis

Mango Mousse Strawberry Shortcake

So, the recipe for Strawberry Shortcake has been highly requested since I did a 'twisted' version during my 24th birthday. 

So, I decided to do a blogpost for it. However, I had loads of mango mousse left from making my yule log and since the mango mousse packs a punch, I was wondering if I should substitute the fresh cream with mango mousse. Part of me tells me that fresh cream should be used but the other half says "HECK IT! WHY NOT?"! Well, we won't have to guess which half of me won. So here's a recipe for Mango Mousse Strawberry Shortcake.. If you like it the conventional way, just replace the mango mousse part of the recipe with fresh cream (:

This recipe took about 3 hours to bake and assemble and yields a 5.5 inch square cake.

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