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I like to garnish fruit tarts with a variety of fruit, picking what's in season, but also what fruits would look nice together on a tart. For the fruit garnish, you will need a lot of fruit.butter, which smooths out the texture and adds richness.Flour isn't as powerful and will lead to a softer set, which means the tart won't slice as cleanly as with cornstarch. cornstarch is the most appropriate thickener for a tart filling, as opposed to flour.You could consider using a mixture of sugar and honey or maple syrup here, and that would bring a lot of flavour to this dessert. sugar, but not too much, to lightly sweeten the filling but also stabilize and preserve the pastry cream.If you use whole eggs, make sure to strain the pastry cream before chilling it to remove any lumps of cooked egg white. Yolks lead to a more yellow pastry cream with a richer flavour, while whole eggs are a little lighter in taste and colour. egg yolks are best, but whole eggs will also work.I don't recommend using skim milk here because the filling needs a little fat to make it rich and creamy. milk, either whole milk with 3.25 % fat or 2 % fat milk.For the filling, you will make a pastry cream made from:.flour holds the dough together and give it structure, just like a rolled sugar cookie dough.egg yolk and milk bind the ingredients together and make the dough more pliable and easier to roll out.

ground almonds, which also make the dough more tender and less hard.

icing sugar, leading to a more tender cookie crust.

You can either skip the salt in the pastry recipe if you use salted, or lean into the salt because a little extra salt in the crust will bring a bigger contrast between the salty and the sweet.

butter, specifically unsalted butter, though salted would also work here.

For the tart shell, you will make a pâte sucrée (a sweet shortcrust) made from:.

There are 3 major components to plan for when you are making a fruit tart, and each requires its own set of ingredients. Powdered sugar is an alternative to the glaze

a glaze, which is optional, but if your fruit aren't as fresh and sweet as you were hoping, sometimes a clear glaze (you could even use honey or maple syrup) will add shine to the fruit garnish and also some sweetness.

fruits, generally lots of berries, but you'll also see other fruits like segments of citrus fruit, grapes, kiwis, etc.

a filling, usually vanilla pastry cream ( French baking term for pastry cream is crème pâtissière), though it could also be a mousseline filling, combining pastry cream with more butter (the same filling that is in the classic framboisier cake).

a crust or tart shell, usually made from a pâte sucrée or sweet shortcrust pastry, which is basically like a sweet cookie crust.

The classic fruit tart you see in pastry shops is usually made up of three components: Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.