Strawberry Blueberry Almond Tart Recipes

STRAWBERRY-BLUEBERRY TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• In a small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, and sugar until it gets sticky and resembles wet sand. Press mixture into bottom and sides of tart shell. Bake crust until it darkens, about 15 minutes. Set aside until cool.
• In a bowl or stand mixer with paddle, beat together cream cheese, sour cream, and light brown sugar until smooth and fluffy and sugar has dissolved and is no longer grainy. Stir in vanilla, lemon zest, and lemon juice.
• Spread lemon filling evenly over cooled tart crust. Line outer edge of tart with strawberries. Pile blueberries into the center of the ring of strawberries.
• Put apricot jam and water in a small bowl and mix to combine. Microwave until thinned out, about 20 seconds. Brush berries with apricot glaze. Let tart chill in refrigerator for one hour before serving.

STRAWBERRY ALMOND TARTS

Steps:

• For the dough, beat the butter and sugar with the paddle on medium speed until very soft and light. Beat in the vanilla and the yolk and continue beating until smooth and shiny, about 3 more minutes. Stop the mixer, sift the cake flour and add to the butter mixture. Pulse the mixer on and off to incorporate the flour. Scrape the dough onto a piece of plastic, wrap and chill it until firm.
• For the almond filling, combine almond paste, sugar, yolk and zest and beat by machine until smooth. Beat in butter, scrape bowl and beaters and beat in eggs. Continue beating until light.
• Stir in flour. Divide the dough into 4 parts and roll one piece at a time on a floured surface. Use each piece of dough to line a 3 to 4 inch diameter tart pan. Mass the scraps together after rolling the dough for the first four pans and line the last two.
• Arrange the sliced berries evenly on the crust in each pan, then top with the almond filling, spreading it evenly with a metal spatula. Strew evenly with the sliced almonds.
• Bake the tarts at 350 degrees about 25 minutes, until dough is baked through and filling is set.
• Cool in pan, unmold and dust with confectioners' sugar. Decorate each tart with a few whole berries.

FRESH BLUEBERRY ALMOND TART

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. In large bowl, mix blueberries, granulated sugar, cornstarch, water and almond extract.
• Remove crust from pouch; unroll on ungreased cookie sheet. Spread 1/4 cup of the almonds over crust; press lightly into crust.
• Spoon blueberry mixture onto center of crust to within 2 inches of edge of crust. Fold 2-inch edge of crust over blueberry mixture, crimping crust slightly. Sprinkle crust edge with sugar crystals.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes, sprinkling remaining 1/4 cup almonds over blueberry mixture during last 5 minutes of baking, until crust is golden. Cool slightly.