Get ready to make your dessert dreams a reality!
I have a delicious list of sweet and savory tart recipes to make your table the envy of everyone, and with 30 tarts, there is something for every taste bud!
After all, who doesn’t love a buttery crust with a delectable filling?
Let’s get baking!
1. Plum Tart
This incredible dessert features flaky pastry and a beautiful plum topping. However, hold on.
There is a hidden delight below the plum layer that is totally extraordinary. Surprisingly, once the tart bakes, the plum juices meld with the almond-sugar mixture to create a rich custard.
2. Vegan Chocolate Orange Tart with Candied Kumquats
This exquisite dessert features a chocolate shortbread crust, followed by a luscious chocolate-orange filling, and finished with chocolate ganache. How great does that sound?
The vegan confection is also decorated with candied kumquats that provide even more complexity to this already decadent treat.
3. Vanilla Custard Tarts with Fresh Raspberries
These delectable tarts are brimming with vanilla custard and finished with raspberries. Okay, vanilla might seem like a boring choice, but the recipe proves that vanilla can be terrific.
Sure, vanilla is not zesty like fruits, but has a unique flavor that you can’t find anywhere else.
4. Pineapple Tarts
Want a tropical dessert with Asian influences? This tasty pineapple dessert will definitely hit the spot!
These pineapple tarts are usually prepared and enjoyed during the Lunar New Year in Singapore and Malaysia. It’s no surprise that they are served during the holiday with how amazing these little pineapple treats look.
5. Nutella Tart with Toasted Hazelnut Crust
If you are trying to find a surefire way to impress the kids, this is exactly the dessert you need. With its rich Nutella filling and crunchy hazelnut crust, this tart will definitely be a home run.
If you love hazelnuts, this dessert will rock your world.
6. Pomegranate Cream Tart
This tart will blow you away with its freshness and flavor. Pomegranate seeds are frequently incorporated as a garnish for salads, yogurts, and many other foods.
The pomegranate is in the spotlight in this tart, taking advantage of their deliciousness and striking ruby color. Pomegranates combined with cream cheese and cranberry jam make this a tasty dream.
7. French Apricot Tart Recipe | Tarte Aux Abricot
Make your dessert fancier with this apricot tart. The blend of apricot jam and apricots ensures the tart will be packed with bright sweetness.
French pastry may appear intimidating, but don’t worry! This tart provides step-by-step instructions and photos that will make your French baking experience smooth and easy.
8. Salted Caramel and Peanut Chocolate Tart Recipe
This chocolate, salted caramel, and peanut explosion is one of my favorite peanut recipes. This is what every sweet tooth dreams of.
The amazing combination of sweet, salty, crunchy, and nutty is served on top of a classic graham cracker crust. This treat will have you hooked after the first bite.
9. Tomato Tart with Puff Pastry
These small puff pastries topped with melty cheese and tomato are an appetizer that will disappear as soon as you set them out! As an added bonus, it is vegetarian friendly so everyone can join in.
Because they are so delicious, it would be best to make a lot.
10. Easy Banoffee Pie
I am a huge fan of banoffee pie because I think the combination of bananas and caramel is amazing. Together with a buttery crust and whipped cream, the components create a wonderful balance of refreshing and sinful flavors.
As an added bonus, it only requires 5 ingredients and 15 minutes to make.
11. Fresh Peach Tart
If you ask me, juicy peaches are the perfect fruit for fruit pies and tarts. Their sunny flavor and colors make them great options. Not to mention how unbelievably delicious they are.
They are perfect just the way they are, so there is no need to cook them to make a wonderful filling.
12. Cornflake Tart
With this recipe, you can turn a basic breakfast cereal into a tasty tart! You will find texture galore in this confection. You get a crisp pastry and a crunchy cornflake middle covered in a rich golden sauce – all in one bite.
Since cornflake tarts are a popular British dessert, this recipe is for you if you want to try something with a bit of culture.
13. Cranberry Gingersnap Pie
If you need a unique dessert to make for Thanksgiving, stop right there. The combination of velvet cranberry puree and the buttery crumb crust will have everyone hooked. You will be amazed at the explosion of flavors and textures in this recipe.
The crust is made with crushed gingersnap cookies, brown sugar, walnuts, and butter. Sorry, graham crackers, but you have been replaced.
14. Cherry Bakewell Blondies
These are not run-of-the-mill blondies. While blondies are already awesome, this recipe enhances them by putting almonds, raspberry jam, and cherry Bakewells on top. It is like eating four desserts in one, and they come together perfectly.
You only need 15 minutes for prep!
15. Tomato Basil Tart
This quiche-like tart is loaded with tomatoes, basil pesto, and cheese. It tastes exactly like a margherita pizza. While the ingredients are simple, they make a mouthwatering treat that will have you hooked.
I am always amazed at how delicious vegetables can be.
16. Apple Frangipane Tart
Don’t be discouraged by this tart’s fancy name. This tart has a crunchy crust brimming with frangipane. Thin apple slices decorate the top of this flower-like treat.
The tart is topped off with apricot preserves. A frangipane is an almond custard made with butter, sugar, eggs, almond flour, and other flavorings.
17. Raspberry Chocolate Tart
This sophisticated dessert is perfect for a romantic evening. In fact, with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, what better way to spend the special evening than with an Oreo crust, rich ganache middle, and raspberry topping?
You can sprinkle powdered sugar on top if raspberries are too tart.
18. Apple Tarte Tatin
This classic French dessert is a pastry known for its delicious caramelized fruit and striking color. A flaky pastry is used to hold the delicious caramelized apples. Serve this with ice cream for an even better dessert.
Even though it might appear complex, it calls for very few ingredients.
19. Bacon and Onion Tarts
Let’s take a break from the sugary treats and try these bacon and onion tarts. The thought of smoky bacon and caramelized onions has me drooling. Adding a buttery crust makes them close to perfection.
It has wonderful combinations of flavor: savory, smoky, sweet, and salty.
20. Basque Apple Tart
This tart captures spiced and sweetened apple slices between flaky pastry layers. If you’re feeling up for it, you can even make the pastry from scratch. It’s easier than you think.
If you are new to pie baking, this is a great recipe to start with, and I won’t tell if you go with store bought dough.
21. French Pear Tart Recipe
This French pear tart not only looks great, but it also tastes amazing. Don’t fret; arranging the pear slices in the flower appearance is very easy.
Aside from pears, it features a fig-pear puree tucked in between the crust and the topping. The three create a symphony of flavors and textures.
22. Limoncello Lemon Tart
This treat tastes as great as it looks. What a total package!
This tart boasts a crumbly coconut and graham cracker crust, fresh berries to garnish, and lemon-limoncello cream. It will definitely be a summer delight. The filling is so fluffy that it melts in your mouth, creating a perfect pairing with the crumbly crust.
23. Strawberry Tart with Orange Cream
Strawberries and oranges unite in this delectable recipe. The result is an irresistibly refreshing dessert.
I call this fruity perfection with a tangy, sweet, and citrusy orange cream cheese custard filling topped with fresh strawberries. You just have to try it!
24. Portuguese Custard Tarts, or Pasteis de Nata
Your trip to Macau isn’t complete without Pasteis de Nata. These mini tarts have a flaky pastry crust and a silky custard center, making them to die for!
It’s very lucky if you have been to this beautiful country, but otherwise, these treats are simple to make using this great tart recipe.
25. Traditional Treacle Tart
You don’t have to be invited to Hogwarts to try this amazing Harry Potter treat! Most Potter fans will agree that treacle tart is Harry’s favorite dessert.
It’s another traditional English dessert featuring a buttery shortcrust and gooey treacle filling.
26. Mini Strawberry Tarts
The alluring smell of fresh strawberries will make you crave these treats again and again. They don’t just smell great. They also look adorable.
What is it about tiny desserts that are so great? They taste seriously delicious, too. Brimming with whipped coconut cream and finished with strawberry sauce and fresh strawberries, they’re hard to resist.
27. Vegan Eggnog Custard Tart
Make your holiday even better with this eggnog custard tart. It doesn’t contain dairy, so everyone can dig in.
Even better, it tastes just like your go-to holiday drink, but in dessert form. The buttery crust and alcohol-spiked eggnog filling makes this recipe perfect for the holidays.
28. Butternut Squash & Mushroom Tart
This savory tart is one you will want to prepare every week. It is awesome because of its earthy mushrooms, sweet butternut squash, and parmesan.
For the crust, store-bought puff pastry is used, giving it an amazing texture and saving you prep time.
29. Lemon Tart with a Buttery Shortbread Crust
You will be in heaven after just one bite of this shortbread crust filled with lemon curd. The tart is also topped with fresh berries and powdered sugar for the perfect finish.
It’s just the thing for people who dislike overly sweet treats. The filling and topping bring a delightful mix of sweet, tart, and creamy. The buttery and crumbly crust adds great texture.