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Easy Puff Pastry Fruit Tart

puff pastry dessert

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Enjoy a flaky pastry dough with a touch of sweetness and a refreshing tart flavor from the fresh berries. This easy puff pastry fruit tart is perfect for your next backyard party.

Ingredients

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Puff Pastry Dough

  • 226 grams cold butter, cubed
  • 240 grams all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 115 ml cold water

Sweet Cream Cheese

  • 4 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup farmers cheese (tovorg)
  • 3 tbsp sweeetened condensed milk
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Berries

  • 1 lb fresh berries - I used strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries

Instructions

Let's start by making the homemade puff pastry dough:

  1. Add flour and salt into the glass bowl.
  2. Cut cold butter into small cubes and add to the flour and salt.
  3. Rub the butter into the flour until the pieces are small and flattened. Having butter pieces in the flour mixture is good and necessary to create that flaky dough texture.
  4. Create a pool in the middle of the flour mixture. Add the water and start mixing the dough.
  5. Mix the dough until all ingredients are combined.
  6. Cover the dough ball with flour, wrap it in plastic wrap, and refrigerate it for 20 minutes.
  7. Remove dough from the refrigerator and place on a clean surface.
  8. Stretch or press the dough out into a rectangle shape.
  9. Use the marble rolling pin to roll out the dough into a rectangle, about a 12x6 inch size.

    • You should see butter pieces and the dough should look marbly.

  10. Fold like a letter, 3 fold.
  11. Roll out the dough and fold two more times
  12. After the third fold, cover the dough with plastic wrap, and let it rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Make the Cream

  1. While the dough is resting, make the cream
  2. Add softened cream cheese, farmer's cheese, vanilla extract, and sweetened condensed milk to a bowl. Using a hand mixer, combine all ingredients until smooth.
  3. Set aside.

Prepare your fruits

  1. Rinse all the berries.
  2. Slice strawberries into thin layers.

Baking the Puff Pastry Dough

  1. Preheat the oven to 400*F
  2. Remove the rested dough from the refrigerator and roll it into a 16 x 20 inch rectangle.
  3. Using a pizza cutter, cut the puff pastry dough into 12 rectangular pieces.
  4. Fold each side of the rectangle 1/4 inch in, creating a thicker edge on the pastry.
  5. Place the rectangle puff pastry dough pieces on a half-size baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  6. Beat the egg with a fork or a mini whisk. Using a pastry brush, cover the folded edges of the pastry with eggwash.
  7. Take a fork and poke the center of the pastry with the fork so that it will not rise where the cream and berries will sit in this area.
  8. Bake the puff pastry dough for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
  9. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

Putting the Fruit Tart Together

  1. Place the baked puff pastry rectangles onto a platter or board.
  2. Add 1 tablespoon of cream into the center and spread evenly in the middle of the puff pastry.
  3. Add the berries in your desired pattern on top of the cream.
  4. Can be enjoyed immediately.