Best Mini Strawberry Tarts Recipes

MINI STRAWBERRY TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease mini muffin pans.
• Place cream cheese and butter in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour, one cup at a time, until all is incorporated. Roll dough into 70 small balls, and press each into a mini muffin pan cup to form the pastry crusts.
• Bake crusts in preheated oven until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes. Remove from oven, and allow to cool.
• Stir gelatin, sugar, and food coloring into the boiling water. Place over high heat; bring back to a boil. Stir together cornstarch and water to make a paste. Stir the cornstarch mixture in the boiling gelatin until dissolved. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Spoon cooled gelatin mixture evenly into tart shells. Push a strawberry half down into each tart. If desired, top each tart with a small amount of whipped cream or whipped topping just before serving.

MINI STRAWBERRY RHUBARB TARTS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 9 regular-size muffin cups with cooking spray.
• On large cutting board, unroll pie crust. Using 2-inch round cutter, cut pie crust into 9 rounds. Press each round into bottom of muffin cup.
• In 10-inch skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add rhubarb; cook about 5 minutes or until slightly softened. Reduce heat to medium. Add strawberries, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and almond extract; cook about 10 minutes, stirring every minute to keep mixture from burning on bottom of skillet, until mixture is the thickness of strawberry preserves.
• Spoon 2 tablespoons rhubarb-strawberry mixture into each crust-lined muffin cup.
• Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until edges of crust are light golden brown. Remove from muffin cups to cooling rack. Cool about 15 minutes.
• To serve, top each tart with whipped cream. Garnish with fresh strawberries.

MINI WILD STRAWBERRY TARTS - BARQUETTES DE FRAISES DES BOIS

Steps:

• First make your pastry. Place the flour and sugar in a food processor and whizz for thirty seconds. Turn the processor back on and add the chilled butter and finally the egg. If the pastry needs a little more liquid add a spot of water until the dough rolls cleanly round the bowl. Wrap your pastry in Clingfilm and chill for half an hour whilst you prepare the tartlet tins and strawberries.
• Taste one of your strawberries to judge their sweetness. If they are sweet and luscious, as fraises des bois generally are, they will only need hulling, rinsing and a final dressing with the sugar syrup. If they're a little too tart, rinse them, lay them on a plate and sprinkle with caster sugar to give them a bit of a boost.
• Pre-heat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
• Butter your barquette or round tart tins, take the pastry out of the fridge and roll it out. Line each tin and prick the bottoms well. Bake in the oven for about fifteen to twenty minutes, but keep an eye on them, they may need pricking again. Leave to cool.
• Make a simple sugar syrup by boiling two tablespoons of caster sugar with the water for two minutes or so. Allow to cool. Mix the icing sugar & vanilla essence with the crème fraiche and chill.
• When you are ready to serve your barquettes/tarts, spread them with crème fraiche mixture; sit the strawberries on top and brush with the glaze.

MINI STRAWBERRY MASCARPONE TARTS

Steps:

• Special equipment: 3-inch round cookie cutter
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
• In a small bowl add 1/2 cup of sugar and the salt. Stir to combine and pour about half of it evenly onto a work surface. With your hands, press the dough into the sugar and roll out into a flat disk, about 1/2-inch thick. Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 of the sugar evenly over the top of the dough and press it a few times to adhere. With a rolling pin, roll the dough into a thickness of about 1/8-inch, turning and flipping as you roll to incorporate the sugar into the dough and to keep it from sticking to the surface. With a 3-inch round cutter, cut out 12 dough rounds and arrange them on the lined baking sheet. Transfer to the oven and bake until crisp and golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool the crisp rounds completely on the pan.
• Meanwhile, pour the balsamic vinegar into a small saucepan and bring it to a simmer over medium-high heat. Simmer until thick and syrupy, about 4 minutes; it should still swirl in the pan. If too thick, simply add about a teaspoon of balsamic, stir, and remove from the heat.
• Put the strawberries in a small bowl and sprinkle them with 1 tablespoon of sugar. Let them stand until juicy, 5 to 10 minutes. To assemble the tarts, spread about 2 teaspoons mascarpone on each crisp dough round with a spoon or small offset spatula. Using a spoon to drain any excess liquid, put about 1 tablespoon of diced strawberries on the top of each tart. Drizzle a little balsamic syrup over the tarts and serve immediately.
• Cook's Note: The sugared dough scraps can be tossed with cinnamon and baked in the 400 degree F oven until browned and crisp as a treat for the little ones. Leftover strawberries or balsamic syrup are delicious over ice cream!

MINI GLAZED FRESH STRAWBERRY TARTS

Steps:

• Place strawberries in pie crusts. Slowly pour 2 Tbsp. of the glaze evenly over strawberries in each shell.
• Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.
• Top with whipped topping just before serving. Store leftover tarts in refrigerator.