Fresh Fruit Tart with Vanilla Mascarpone Cream
Jul 04, 2025 07:43 AM
With a sweet pastry crust and smooth mascarpone cream filling, homemade fresh fruit tart is simply elegant. This eye-catching, colorful dessert is surprisingly easy to prepare. Plus, you can save time and make the crust and cream in advance
A fresh fruit tart is the kind of dessert that looks like you poured your heart and soul into it, when in reality you made the pastry crust yesterday, the cream filling takes about 5 minutes, and you spent most of the time snacking on all the fruit you were cutting.
Another wonderful thing about this beautiful dessert is that there’s minimal bake time, which makes it a favorite in the summertime! The crust only bakes for about 25 minutes, then you let it cool and fill it with the good stuff. You can make the crust ahead of time and then fill it the next day.
Ingredients:
Crust
- 1 and 1/2 cups (188g) all-purpose flour, plus more as needed
- 6 tablespoons (45g) confectioners’ sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (8 Tbsp/113g) unsalted butter, at room temperature and cut into 8 pieces
- 1 large egg, cold
Vanilla Mascarpone Cream
- 1/2 cup (120ml) heavy cream, cold
- 1/2 cup (60g) confectioners’ sugar, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon zest
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- seeds scraped from 1/2 vanilla bean (or 1 extra teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste)
- 8 ounces (226g) mascarpone, cold
Fruit Topping
- assorted fresh sliced fruit
- 2 Tablespoons orange, peach, or apricot preserves
- 1 Tablespoon water
Prep Time:
80 minutes
Cook Time:
25 minutes
Total Time:
180 minutes
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