Bite-sized goat cheese tarts topped with fresh blackberries and drizzled with honey.
Yes, they’re actually as delicious as their name implies.
These mini cheese tarts are one of my favorite appetizer recipes. They’re elegant and just gorgeous on a plate! I typically double the batch because they always go quickly. Not to mention I need to account for the ones I’ll snack on before serving 🙂
You know you’ll be doing the same thing.
Although I’m normally not much of a dough maker, I’m good with the type of dough used to make these cheese tarts. Yeast? Forget it. But cream cheese and butter? That I can definitely get behind. Easy to make but doesn’t look like it’s easy to make – my kind of recipe.
Whatever you do, when you make these cheese tarts don’t skip the blackberries! You could sub for raspberries or use a combination of the two, but the berries are what bring all the flavors together. A great way to get some fiber while adding a bit of sweet, too!
Mini Cheese Tarts with Blackberries
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Large pinch of salt
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, at room temperature
- 6 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature (divided)
- 5 ounces goat cheese, at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons honey, gently warmed
- 24 fresh blackberries
Instructions
- Combine flour and salt in a food processor and pulse to combine. Add butter and half the cream cheese and pulse about 10 times, until mixture begins to clump together. Gather up dough and shape
- into a thick disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled and easy
- to handle (about 2 hours).
- Preheat to 350°F. Spray two mini-muffin pans with cooking spray.
- Divide dough into 24 equal pieces. Place one piece in each muffin cup.
- Using fingers, press dough firmly and evenly up sides to make a pastry shell. Freeze 5 minutes.
- Mash goat cheese and remaining cream cheese together in a medium bowl until smooth. Add egg, yolk, minced thyme, salt and pepper and whisk until combined. Spoon equal amounts of filling into chilled pastry shells.
- Bake tarts until crust is golden brown and filling is puffed (about 25 minutes). Let cool for 10 minutes in pans. Remove tarts from pans and transfer to a wire cake rack to cool completely.
- Just before serving, lightly brush tops of tartlets with about 1 tablespoon of honey. Arrange berries on top of tarts and drizzle with remaining honey. Sprinkle with the thyme leaves and serve.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Driscoll's.
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Kulsum at JourneyKitchen
Tuesday 20th of March 2012
these are SO cute!
the wicked noodle
Wednesday 21st of March 2012
Thanks Kulsum!!
Tickled Red
Monday 12th of March 2012
Hello lovelies! Blackberries and cheesecake are two of my favorite flavor combinations :D
PatrickWaller1
Saturday 18th of February 2012
These look absolutely delicious. My grandmother loves blackberries and since she is diabetic, these look like they would be ok for her to eat ;)
Carole
Tuesday 7th of February 2012
Where do you find blackberries in the middle of winter? :-)
the wicked noodle
Tuesday 7th of February 2012
At the store :-)