This will be the last shower post, I promise (but we had so much tasty food!) and Sales Guy is gone this week so there hasn’t been much (any) cooking at our house. My goal tomorrow is to make something new, learn to download pix from our camera (so I won’t have to depend on Daughter 2) and post about it. Or possibly Saturday??
We made these light, delicious tarts for my niece’s shower (I highly recommend using light cream cheese and light whipped topping to make them seem less sinful) and they were a hit.
They were kind of a pain to make. We rolled out the sugar cookie dough (if you’ve done that before, you know that the refrigerated dough is very sticky and needs lots of additional flour before you can work with it) and cut circles to place in the muffin tins. Our circles were sticking and it was a mess. Then today, light bulb comes on! Why not cut the roll of cookie dough into thin circles and flatten them a bit and press them into the greased muffin cups? Duh! Why didn’t I think of that a week ago!? Anyway, the recipe here includes the new, improved process.
Try them! Especially when fruits come in season this summer. Our kiwi and some of the berries were pretty tart, but everyone enjoyed them anyway!
Fruit Tarts
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Ingredients
- 1 tube refrigerator sugar cookies (16 oz)
- 8oz cream cheese (softened)
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Medium frozen whipped topping (1 tub)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups assorted fruits (strawberries, kiwi, other berries, canned peaches, mandarin oranges)
Directions
| Crust | |
| Step 1 | |
| HEAT oven to 375°F. | |
| Step 2 | |
| Slice cookie dough and flatten slightly. Place slices in greased mini-muffin pans, molding them to sides and bottom of pans. Bake until lightly browned (10 to 15 minutes). Let cool. | |
| Topping | |
| Step 3 | |
| BEAT cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla with mixer until well blended. Mix in whipped topping. | |
| Step 4 | |
| Pour cream cheese mixture into gallon storage bag and cut off one corner. Squeeze cream cheese mixture into cookie cups and top with assorted fruit. Chill and serve. | |
Now you need to pin this to your tailgate board!
This was one of my favorites. Next time I think son 2 would request some with all strawberries as there was some rearranging of the fruit during the after party
What – son #2 picky? I hope he figured out what cheese was on those yummy ham/cheese/mustard biscuits! He just needs to widen his experiences.
Perhaps I can post my responses 4 or 5 times…wouldn’t that be fun?!?
You did!! I removed the duplicates! Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend!
Hey Daughter 1 and 2, love your Mom’s blog. Can you guys figure out how to make it so I can get a notice whenever MamaCook posts something new? This might just be my new favorite site!
I agree – an automated notification would be great!
Tarts sound great. I do like the idea of one strawberry tart, one blueberry, etc, as well as some mixed fruit. Since the family is made up of mixed fruit anyway. You are the hostess with the mostest. W-
I lovvveed these..I want to eat this for breakfast, before lunch snack, after lunch dessert, after dinner dessert, late night snack….etc, etc, etc… They’re light right?