Summer Berry Custard Tarts

Name: Summer Berry Custard Tarts
Yield: Makes 20
Ingredients: 125 g (4½ oz) blackberries, washed; 1 quantity sweet shortcrust pastry; 20 ml (½ fl oz/1 tablespoon) Grand Marnier; 750 g (1 lb 10 oz/3 cups) crème pâtissière (see you will need to triple this recipe); 80 ml (2½ fl oz/⅓ cup) pouring (whipping) cream (35% fat); 250 g (9 oz) strawberries, washed, hulled and halved; 125 g (4½ oz) raspberries, washed; 125 g (4½ oz) blueberries, washed

Preparation info

Makes
20

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bourke Street Bakery

By Paul Allam and David McGuinness

Published 2009

About

This is a delicious tart that makes a great barbecue-lunch dessert. It is best assembled at the last minute to ensure the crispest possible pastry shell. The custard should be silky smooth and the berries of the best quality and perfectly ripe.

Ingredients

1 quantity sweet shortcrust pastry
750 g (1 lb 10

Pastry
Dessert
Lunch
Summer
Baking
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Follow the instructions to roll out the pastry and use it to line twenty 8 cm (3¼ inch) round fluted loose-based tart tins. Set the pastry cases in the f