Easy Mini Fruit Tarts - Gluten Free
These mini fruit tarts are made with gluten free sugar cookie dough, pudding, and fresh fruit for a beautiful and tasty dessert.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1.5 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2.5 cups flour gluten free or all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 box vanilla pudding mix 3.4 ounces
- 2 cups milk
- variety of cut up fruit and berries blueberries, raspberries, peaches, apricots, pomegranate seeds, etc..
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and cream of tartar.
- In another large bowl cream together butter and sugar with a hand mixer or a stand mixer.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract to the butter and sugar mixture. Mix well.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter and sugar mixture about 1/3 at a time mixing well between.
- Transfer the dough onto a piece of plastic wrap. Cover and refrigerate for a minimum of 2 hours or overnight.
- Make the instant pudding and place it in the refrigerator until ready to use.
- Wash and cut up fruit into small pieces.
- Roll out the dough on some of the gluten free flour and use round cookie cutters to cut out cookies.
- Place them on a parchment-lined baking pan.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 5 minutes.
- Then remove them from the oven and use a tart shaper or the back of a large spoon to create a spot in the middle of the cookies for the pudding.
- Return the cookies to the oven and back for an additional 5 minutes.
- Allow the cookies to cool for 15- 20 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
- Decorate the cookie tarts by spooning a nice helping of pudding in the middle and top with fruit.
- Keep them in the refrigerator until read to serve.
Notes
The gluten free flour I used says you can use it in 1 to 1 ratio just like all purpose flour. So if you want to make them with regular all-purpose flour the directions are the same.
However, the gluten free flour seems to need more cooling time before removing the cookie from the parchment.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 234kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 3gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.4gCholesterol: 39mgSodium: 222mgPotassium: 95mgFiber: 1gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 373IUCalcium: 41mgIron: 1mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although attempts have been made to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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