This strawberry cheese tarts are perfect for when you’re craving something sweet and delicious.

Strawberry Cheese Tart

Make: 17 – 20 tartlets (3 inch wide, 1 1/2 inch deep tart mould)

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Simple ingredients to make great strawberry cheese tart.

Strawberry Cheese Tart

Ingredients:

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Pastry

• Plain flour – 225 grams
• Milk powder – 1 tablespoon
• Icing sugar – 50 grams
• Butter – 110 grams
• Vanilla essence – 1/2 teaspoon
• Egg – 1 egg

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Cream cheese filling

• Cream cheese – 250 grams
• Butter – 25 grams
• Castor sugar – 45 grams
• Egg – 1 egg
• Lemon juice – 1 teaspoon
• Whipping cream or milk – 35 grams
• Plain flour – 20 grams

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Instructions:

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To make pastry

1. Cream the butter with icing sugar until the mixture is smooth and light in color.

2. Add in egg and whisk in slowly. Then add in vanilla extract, mix well.

3. Sift in flour and milk powder in two batches, scraping down the sides of the bowl between additions with a spatula, make sure all ingredients combine well.

4. Using hand, press the mixture together and form a ball. Slowly give it a few knead.

5. Wrap the pastry in a cling wrap and refrigerate for about 15 minutes.  

6. Roll out the pastry to a 1/2 cm thickness. Cut pastry with a cookie cutter.

7. Line pastry in the tart mould, one by one. Lightly press the pastry with your thumb and trim away any excess pastry from rim of the tart mould. Using a fork, prick the base so that it doesn’t puff up while baking.

8. Bake in a preheated oven at 170C (340F) for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave it to cool completely. Remove the tart shell from the mould once completely cool.

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To make cream cheese filling

1. In a bowl, add cream cheese, butter and sugar. Cream together until smooth.

2. Add in egg, mix until combined. Then add in whipping cream or milk, mix all together.

3. Next, add in the flour and mix until combined.

4. Spoon strawberry jam in the tart shell then spoon in the cream cheese mixture on top of the strawberry jam.  

5. Top with strawberry jam again, then swirl with a toothpick to create a marble effect.

6. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C (390F) for 10 – 12 minutes.   

7. Remove from the oven and cool completely.

8. Chill in the fridge for 2 hours before serving.

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