STRAWBERRY AND BLUEBERRY TART RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• In a small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, and sugar until it gets sticky and resembles wet sand. Press mixture into bottom and sides of tart shell. Bake crust until it darkens, about 15 minutes. Set aside until cool.
• In a bowl or stand mixer with paddle, beat together cream cheese, sour cream, and light brown sugar until smooth and fluffy and sugar has dissolved and is no longer grainy. Stir in vanilla, lemon zest, and lemon juice.
• Spread lemon filling evenly over cooled tart crust. Line outer edge of tart with strawberries. Pile blueberries into the center of the ring of strawberries.
• Put apricot jam and water in a small bowl and mix to combine. Microwave until thinned out, about 20 seconds. Brush berries with apricot glaze. Let tart chill in refrigerator for one hour before serving.

Steps:

• Add the sliced butter and sugar into the food processor and pulse until they are creamed, light and fluffy. Add one egg and the yolk of the second egg, then pulse again until incorporated; reserve the egg white from the second egg until the end in case the dough is too dry.
• Sift the flour and salt together, then add to the food processor. Pulse until the mixture comes together into a ball. If the mixture will not form into a ball and looks dry after about 30 seconds, add the reserved egg white.
• Turn out the dough onto plastic wrap and flatten into a disk. Chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes and up to 2 days. Or freeze well wrapped in plastic wrap and foil up to one month.
• Remove tart dough from refrigerator. If it has been refrigerated for more than 20 minutes, you may need to leave it out to warm up slightly until workable.
• Set a 9-inch or 10-inch tart pan to the side of your work bench. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough so that it is slightly larger than the pan, starting from the middle and working out. The dough should be uniform in thickness (about 1/4-inch thick).
• Roll the dough onto the rolling pin and carefully transfer into the tart pan. Without stretching the dough, lightly press the dough into the bottom and up the sides of the pan. Chill in the refrigerator until filling is ready.
• Heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, toss the blueberries and strawberries with sugar, zest and juice of one lime, and the 2 tablespoons of flour. Spoon into the tart shell then dot pieces of butter over the top.
• Bake until the tart shell is light golden brown around the edges, 1 hour to 1 hour and 20 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and cool until the fruit has set, about 1 hour.
• Heat the jam in the microwave or small saucepan then use a pastry brush to brush the warmed jam over the top of the tart. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.