Christmas fruit tarts are a festive Christmas dessert that kids love! The tart crust is made with just 4 ingredients, baked, then topped with a cream cheese and whipped topping icing. Decorate with fruit to make a snowman or simply add chopped fruit. No artistic skills needed! Gluten-free.
1 1/2cupsgluten-free all-purpose flourwe used Cup4Cup multipurpose fliur
9tablespoonsbutter, melted1 stick plus 1 tablespoon
3tablespoonssugar
1/2teaspoonsalt
Icing
2ouncescream cheese, room temperature✅
1/2cuppowdered sugar
1teaspoonalmond extract✅
1/2cupwhipped topping✅
Fruit Topping
1/2cupsmall blueberries
3largeraspberries
14smallstrawberries
Instructions
Preheat the oven and prep pans. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place tart pans onto baking sheet and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
Blend the crust ingredients then refrigerate. In a medium sized bowl stir the gluten-free flour, melted butter, sugar, and salt together. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
⭐️ Press dough into tart pans then bake. Remove the dough from the refrigerator then use your hands to crumble the dough into sand like consitancy. Divide the dough between the 6 tart pans. Press into the pan with your fingers firmly. Bake 12-14 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool.
⭐️ Make the icing. In a medium sized bowl blend the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and almond extract until it's smooth and creamy. Add the whipped topping. Using a spatula, fold together until just blended.
2 ounces cream cheese, room temperature, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon almond extract, 1/2 cup whipped topping
Decorate the tarts. Equally divide the icing amoung the tarts then spread with a spoon. Add 2 blueberries for eyes, cut strawberries into a nose, 2 large strawberries for earmuffs, more blueberrys for the earmuff band, then cut a raspberry into 4ths using 2 peices for the smile. Serve immediately.
1/2 cup small blueberries, 3 large raspberries, 14 small strawberries
Notes
You can make the crust and the icing the day before but wait to combine them to help the crust stay crisp.
You can also make the crusts ahead then freeze for up to 3 months. When ready to serve, remove from the freezer, thaw and decorate.
Add fruit just before serving as the fruit may bleed into the icing if left to sit too long.
Additional festive fruit options include pomegranate arils and kiwi.
CCK Features both Gluten-Free Guidance and Kids Cooking Instructions: If you're new to eating gluten-free we understand it's overwhelming trying to figure out which foods may contain gluten and which ones don't. All of our gluten-free recipes marked with this symbol ✅ represent foods that need to be checked for gluten or cross-contamination.The ⭐️ symbol in the recipe below denotes the steps in which kid cooks may need a helper (depending on age). If there is no ⭐️ symbol, that step (or recipe) doesn't require a helper.