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Pineapple Blueberry Cream Tart

Type: Fruit
Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

1   Pillsbury - refrigerated pie cru
  Filling
1   Lemon pudding and pie - filling mix
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozSugar
1/4 cup 59mlWater
2   Egg yolks
2/3 cup 97g / 3.4ozCanned - crushed pineapple
  Juice
1 1/3 cups 315mlWater
1 teaspoon 5mlGrated lemon peel
2 cups 474mlFresh or frozen - blueberries, thawed
  On paper towels
1/2 cup 118mlBlueberry preserves - warmed
  Topping
1 1/2 cups 355mlWhipping cream
1/3 cup 65g / 2.3ozPowdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlVanilla
1 1/2 teaspoons 7.5mlGrated lemon peel

Recipe Instructions

Heat oven to 450F. Prepare pie crust according to package directions for one-crust baked shell using 10" tart pan with removable bottom or 9" pie pan. (Refrigerate remaining crust for later use.) Place prepared crust in pan; press in bottom and up sides of pan.

Trim edges if necessary. DO NOT PRICK CRUST. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until lightly browned. If crust puffs up during baking, gently press crust down with back of wooden spoon. Cool. In medium saucepan, combine pudding mix, sugar, 1/4 c water and egg yolks; mix until smooth. Add pineapple, 1 1/3 c water and 1 t lemon peel; cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat; cool slightly.

In small bowl, combine blueberries and preserves. Spread over cooled baked crust.

Spoon pudding mixture over blueberry mixture. Refrigerate 30 minutes or until cold. In small bowl, combine whipping cream, powdered sugar and vanilla; beat until stiff peaks form.

Spoon or spread over pudding mixture; sprinkle with 1 1/2 t lemon peel. Serve immediately. Store in refrigerator.

Source:
Cooking Light, Jul/Aug 1994, page 125

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