Puff Pastry Fruit Tartlets
Easy and quick to make these fruit tartlets make a great last minute dessert or tart for a picnic. You can try them with whatever fruit is seasonal at the time, apples, pears, plums, figs, mangoes all work well.
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 15 minutes
Ingredients
Tartlets
- 400g puff pastry
- 6 strawberries, stem removed and sliced lengthwise
- 3 peaches, pitted and sliced
- 4 tbsp caster sugar
To Serve
- clotted or thick cream
- or vanilla ice-cream
Method
- Tartlets: Roll the pastry out so that it is around .75mm thick. Cut the pastry with a 12cm ring into 6 rounds. Place the pastry rounds onto a lightly greased oven tray. Fan 3-4 slices of the peach on the 3 of the pastry rounds and then fan the strawberries out on the remaining ones. Sprinkle the sugar over the tartlets evenly. Leave the pastry to stand for 15 minutes before cooking.
- To Cook: Preheat an oven to 200°C. Place the pastry in the centre shelf of the preheated oven. Leave them to cook for 10-15 minutes until the pastry is golden and puffed up. Remove the tartlets from the oven and serve them hot or cold.
- To Serve: Serve the tartlets with cream or ice-cream.