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.
Ingredients
- 1 Sheet Frozen Puff Pastry
- 9 Tbsp Cream Cheese full fat
- 4 Tbsp Butter melted
- 6 Figs fresh, washed and sliced
- Honey
- Turbinado sugar optional
- Whipped Cream, as desired optional
- 1 egg yolk
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate.
Equipment
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Oh, Karyn, these are just gorgeous, and I love that you can create such magic with just 4 ingredients! Easy enough for an everyday treat, but totally killer-impressive for guests!
Totally!! Perfect for an easy breakfast pastry as well!
I love that they aren’t especially sweet! And what a great use of frozen puff pastry. That stuff is such a lifesaver sometimes. 🙂
Nope, not too sweet at all. Perfect way to really taste the fruit and not be overpowered by other flavors.
I just love how simple this! Now if only I could find fresh figs some place around here! I haven’t see any at all yet. 🙁
Strange, I pick up a clam shell of figs at my local Martins. I hope you find them before it’s too late.
My father in law will love these! Anything fig is his favorite.
They were so easy to make. Easy and delicious!
Wow, they look amazing and so easy!!
They sure are!
Tarts are always in my list of favourite foods, and I love figs as well because of their health benefits. It surprised me that we can combine them. Gonna give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
There are lots a beautiful fig tarts out there. These are quick and easy.
Hi. I wish you had a short video on making the fold. I don’t understand how there is an edge to hold in the cream cheese!
Thanks for the comment. I went back to review the post and agree that the description of folding the puff pastry was lacking. I’ve updated the recipe card it it’s a bit clearer. For a video, you can check out Tasty/ They have the same shape in their tart. Hope that helps.
Thanks Karyn for your timely response and explanation. I never would have guessed…not that much of a baker, obviously. But these I think I can do. Have some lovely figs from my tree and this will do them justice!
It would be helpful if you could have a pic of the “slits” procedure. It makes no sense to me!
You will have square shapes. You’ll cut the left like this ↱ and the right side like ↲. Don’t cut all the way to the corners. These are two flaps that you will then pull up and over to the opposite corner. So, upper left cut corner goes to the lower right INSIDE corner and the bottom right cut piece will go up to the left corner. You are creating a little wall for the filling to sit inside. I hope that helps.