10 elegant dessert tart recipes
(Photo: Roberto Caruso)
Dessert tarts
No-Bake Summer Fruit Tarts
This easy, beautiful and delicious creamy fruit tart is our favourite no-cook summer dessert. Get our no-bake summer fruit tarts recipe.
Perfect Portuguese tarts
Imagine a flaky, buttery shell oozing warm vanilla custard. These traditional bite-sized treats are totally doable and utterly irresistible.
Almond and plum tart
Tangy plums nestled in a melt-in-your-mouth almond filling on a no-fail shortbread crust? This tart is perfect for after-dinner lingering.
Salted caramel and chocolate tart
It will be love at first bite when you taste the rich chocolate ganache, gooey caramel, buttery crust and delicate sprinkling of pink salt that make up this sinfully good dessert.
Classic lemon tart
Tart and tangy but still deliciously sweet, this impressive dessert is creamy, delicate and oh so easy! (P.S. This tart is part of our cooking club challenge this week, so if you make it, be sure to send us a picture!)
Berry tartlets with jumbleberry jam
Say hello to delicious small-batch preserves that take just minutes to prepare! Our jumbleberry jam makes perfectly delicious, bite-sized tartlets for an after-dinner treat.
White chocolate tart with berries
Impress guests with a palate-pleasing dessert that can be made a day ahead. Top with fresh berries before serving.
Chocolate-mandarin mascarpone tartlets
Miniature tarts with zesty creamy filling and dark chocolate, topped with fresh mandarin. Yum!
Easy apple tart with aged cheddar crust
No fancy pastry skills needed here — just roll out frozen puff pastry dough and top with sliced apples and grated cheddar. For a new twist, add a sprinkling of chopped fresh rosemary.
Banoffee tarts
A delicious, 15-minute dessert with bananas and a hint of Kahlua. Finished with chocolate shavings.
Raspberry-Cream Tart
This pretty pastry pie is packed with fresh raspberries and will be sure to impress dinner guests. Get the raspberry cream tart recipe.
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