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Fruit Tart

Course Dessert
Author Carolyn

Ingredients

  • 3 C whole strawberries or other fruit
  • 1 jar raspberry jelly 10 oz or 1 cup, or any other
  • ¼ C to ½ chopped lightly toasted pistachios I don't toast them

Shortbread Crust

  • 1 C flour
  • 2 T confectioners sugar
  • ½ C butter

Instructions

  • Use pastry blender to cut shortening into pea sized pieces.
  • Chill 30 minutes.
  • Turn into 9” tart pan, press firmly on sides and bottom. Form ridge around sides.
  • Bake in preheated 425° oven, 10 – 12 minutes.
  • Cool.
  • Rinse and dry berries, pinch out stems. Arrange berries, pointed side up, in pan. Melt jelly with low heat (microwave) and stir to cool slightly.
  • Spoon and cover each berry. Chill until jelly sets.
  • Just before serving sprinkle with pistachios.

Notes

April 2012