

Depending on how big your slices are, this will yield 12-16 pieces, but don’t be surprised to see people coming back around for seconds! Add it to your summer menu ASAP, relax, and enjoy! You’ll want to keep this in the fridge until ready to serve. With a mixture of red and blue berries, this tart is perfectly festive for any Fourth of July get-together, without being overly cutesy or contrived. And a genius idea it is! I did, however, considerably reduce the sugar in the whipped topping, and left out the sugar entirely from the berry mixture. You can most likely find it in the cheese aisle of your grocery store, possibly near the ricotta.Ĭombining mascarpone with whipped cream, then using the resulting deliciousness to top puff pastry is an idea for which I have to credit Becky of The Cookie Rookie. Pronounced mahs-car-POH-nay, it’s sort of the Italian cousin of cream cheese, and most widely known as the base for an authentic tiramisu. If you’ve never used mascarpone before, get ready to wonder where it’s been all your life. Also, I am interested in trying to make puff pastry from scratch, more out of curiosity than anything else, so if you have any tutorials or tips for this, I’d love to hear them! In the meantime, I’m all about keeping it simple.) (Side note: This is just my $.02, not sponsored in any way. So if you ask me, dolling up a package of puff pastry can be pretty darn close to from-scratch baking, and is a worthy life saver for the busy home cook, or just the average person with a lot going on. Now I normally emphasize making as much as possible from scratch, but also I live in the real world, with many many things competing to fill the day’s 24 hours. This mixed berry puff pastry tart checks all those boxes, and looks good while doing it, besides! Sides and desserts you can throw together without a lot of time or fuss before your friend’s cookout, or while the burgers char on the grill. In my book, the perfect summer foods are delicious, light, simple, and quick. Jump-start your day with a sweet and decadent blast of gooey, wild berry-flavored filling encased in a pastry crust, topped with yummy frosting and crunchy sprinkles. Includes one, 13.5-ounce box of Frosted Wild Berry Pop-Tarts. It was high time for a batch of gorgeous raspberries and blueberries to hang out with some whipped cream and puff pastry, and clearly, they hit it off. Description Pop-Tarts Frosted Wild Berry toaster pastries are a delicious treat to look forward to. I’ve already highlighted the many reasons to be obsessed with summer berries, baking them into strawberry muffins and oat crumble bars, and pureeing them into lemonade. Ingredients: Tart Shell (Pure Butter Shortbread Wheat Flour (Gluten), Concentrated Butter (Milk), Sugar, Invert Sugar Syrup, Eggs, Salt, Vegetable Coating Vegetable Palm Kernel Fat, Vegetable Palm Oil, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin)), Pastry Cream (Pastry Cream Mix Sugar, Non-fat Milk Powder, Modified Food Starch (Tapioca), Dextrose, Fat P. Sometimes, a dessert doesn’t require much additional explanation or justification, and I submit that this is one of those times. Ready in 30 minutes, perfect for July 4th! This mixed berry puff pastry tart with sweetened mascarpone is super easy to put together and will be the hit of any summer party.
