Joyful Living: Fruit Tarts

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Fruit Tarts

Here is nice little summer snack that my family enjoys. I call them Fruit Tarts, but it's more like little fruit pizzas. They are pretty easy to make too.

I mixed a recipe I found in a book and some of my Mom's advice to come up with these cute little tarts. There are a few ways to make this...the easy way, the "middle of the road" way, and the hard way. I usually do the "middle of the road" way myself.

Ingredients:

~Sugar Cookies

(easy way - buy pre-packaged cookies, middle of the road way - buy cookie dough to bake, hard way - get all the ingredients and take the time to actually make homemade cookies.)

~1/2 cup of Sugar

~1 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract

~8 oz Cream Cheese (softened)

~Fruit of you choice

Directions:

1. The first step really depends on what way you have decided to make your fruit tarts.
~If you bought pre-packaged sugar cookies, proceed to step #2.
~If you bought cookie dough, bake the dough as directed.
~If you are making homemade sugar cookies, follow whatever recipe you like for them.

I have bought pre-packed cookies before and it was really easy (and fast) to make that way. However, I usually bake cookie dough.

2. While your cookies are baking, this is a great time to wash and cut up your fruit.

I like to put pineapple, kiwi, and strawberries on mine, but you can use anything you like.

You will not need much fruit so don't go crazy buying a lot. We like fruit and ended up eating most of the leftovers in 1 day!

Note: Keep in mind that you'll need to coat bananas in lemon juice to keep them from turning brown...and you'll need to eat them all that day. I usually don't add bananas for this reason.

3. To make the "icing," mix cream cheese (softened), sugar, and vanilla together.

(The icing is the part of this recipe that I got out of a book. It said to put everything on crescent rolls though...it was not very good. That's when my Mom suggested sugar cookies. GREAT idea!)