These Fig Tarts, made with puff pastry, and love, are a great summer treat that you can throw together. Just four items to pick up at the store, and you’ve got something good!
My Simple Fig Tart Recipe
Made with crisp puff pastry, a dollop of cream cheese, fresh figs, and a sprinkle of sugar, these babies are a quick dessert. Whether you’re having a surprise guest, are short on time or simply appreciate simple dessert recipes. You and your family will enjoy these fig tartlets every time.
For this recipe, you will need fresh figs. They are in season in summer, and for a short time. If you can’t find figs, you can swap out a lot of different fruits into these tarts. For example, strawberries, plums, apricots, sweet (or sour) cherries, and peaches.
Idea: Instead of cream cheese, fill the puff pastry with pudding (custard) before topping up with fresh fruit. Puff Pastry is so versatile and delicious, it is a snack or dessert for any occasion.
Sugar-reduced treats
These little fig pastries aren’t particularly sweet, so reduced in sugar, which is perfect for kids, but for anyone really. To keep it simple, I didn’t add any sugar to the cream cheese and instead chose to drizzle honey to the top of the cooked figs. There is the bit of Turbinado sugar around the edges, but that’s really there for color, caramelization, and to make it look pretty and fancy.
If you prefer a sweeter version, just add sugar, or honey to the cream cheese before adding it to the puff pastry. For a more crispy and glossy outside, whisk an egg yolk and brush the puff pastry with it before baking.
Here are more Tarts for you to enjoy: Chocolate Butterscotch Tart, Cherry Lime Tart, or Peanut Caramel Tart.
Step by Step
- Thaw the frozen puff pastry and let sit at room temperature for 1 hour. Prepare the figs: Wash and slice them.
- Preheat the oven to 400° F and line a cookie sheet with a silicon mat or parchment paper.
- Roll out a sheet of Puff Pastry into an even 9×9 square. Cut into 3 inch squares (9 squares total) and then cut L-shaped slits around the top right and lower left sides, but not at the opposite corners.
- Fold over the top right corner to the lower left inside corner, then the lower left will stretch over to the upper right corner.
- Carefully move the pastry to a cookie sheet, leaving enough space between them, for the puff pastry will rise.
- Spread on a generous tablespoon of cream cheese in the center and top it with two or three slices of fig.
- Melt butter in the microwave or on the stove top. Brush melted butter on the exposed pastry and sprinkle on some Turbinado sugar.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
- Remove, cool for 10 minutes,piece then serve with fresh whipped cream and honey.
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