Spring Dessert: Blackberry Tarts with Lemon Curd Recipe

Entry #3374, March 28, 2014

Spring is the season of various fruits, flowers and delicious light spring desserts. So, it is the right time to enjoy some seasonal sweets made with those delicious fruits. Blackberry tart with lemon curd is a delightful spring dessert that is quick-to-make and is able to serve as a tasteful final touch to a grand lunch or dinner. Make this dessert when blackberries are in season.

Spring Dessert: Blackberry Tarts with Lemon Curd

Delicious blackberry tarts.

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Ingredients

4 Servings

•    Softened cream cheese (4 ounce)

•    Refrigerated unbaked piecrust (7.5 ounce, 1 crust)

•    Powdered sugar

•    Lemon juice (2 teaspoons)

•    Fresh blackberries (1 cup)

•    Seedless blackberry spreadable fruit (2 tablespoons)

•    Lemon curd (1/4 cup)

•    4 mint sprigs

Blackberry tarts with granola shells.

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Preparation

•    Keep the piecrust at room temperature for 15 minutes.

•    Unfold the piecrust and preheat oven to 400 degree F.

•    Cut 4.5- to 5-inch rounds from the piecrust. Push the rounds strongly into bottom and up sides of four 3.5- to 4-inch separate tart pans with detachable bottoms. Snip the upper sides of the crusts to make them even with the top of pans.

•    Take a fork and pierce the bottoms of each crust several times.

•    Put the pans on a baking sheet and bake until they become golden (for 10 to 12 minutes).

•    Put them on a wire rack and wait until they become completely cool.

•    Beat lemon curd and cream cheese in a small mixing bowl until the mixture becomes smooth. Pour the mixture evenly on pastry shells and refrigerate for nearly two hours to make them ice cold.

•    Mix lemon juice and spreadable fruit and spread them over the tarts.

•    Put berries and mint springs on each tart. Finally, serve after sprinkling powdered sugar on them.

Lemon tarts with blackberry on the top.

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The tarts will offer a luscious blend of cream cheese and lemon curd. Serve this spring dessert at your next buddy-party and wow your friends and family. Who doesn’t love Spring Desserts at this time of year? Let us know how you liked this  Blackberry Tarts with Lemon Curd Recipe.

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