Savory Cheese Tartlets with Mixed Berries

Savory Cheese Tartlets with Mixed Berries Recipe

Savory Cheese Tartlets with Mixed Berries

Average Rating:5 Stars 2 Reviews
Prep Time:20 minutes
Cook Time:25 minutes plus chilling and cooling
Servings:24 tartlets, 8 to 12 servings

Description:
Cocktail parties will be sweeter with the addition of these sweet and savory cheese tartlets topped with raspberries and blackberries and drizzled with honey and fresh thyme. The recipe makes 24 tartlets but don't be surprised if they go quick!

Ingredients

Filling

  • 5 ounces rindless goat cheese, at room temperature
  • 3 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
  • 1/4 teaspoons salt
  • 1/4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons honey, preferably full flavored, such as chestnut or thyme, warmed
  • 1 package (6 ounces or 1 1/3 cups) Driscoll's Raspberries
  • 1 package (6 ounces or 1 1/3 cups) Driscoll's Blackberries
  • Fresh thyme leaves, removed from their stems, for garnish

Cream Cheese Dough

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • Pinch salt
  • 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, at room temperature, plus more for pans, if needed
  • 3 ounces cream cheese, cut into tablespoons, at room temperature

Filling

  1. Mash goat cheese and 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.

Assembly

  1. Bake tartlets until crust is golden brown and filling is puffed, about 25 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes in pans. Remove tartlets from pans and transfer to a wire cake rack to cool completely.
  2. Just before serving, lightly brush tops of tartlets with about 1 tablespoon honey. Arrange berries on top as desired. Drizzle with the remaining honey. Sprinkle with the thyme leaves and serve.

Cream Cheese Dough

  1. Combine flour and salt in a food processor fitted with metal chopping blade and pulse to combine. Add butter and 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.

Baking the dough

  1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350°F. Have ready two 12-cup miniature muffin pans (each cup measuring 1 7/8 inches across the top and 7/8 inches deep), preferably nonstick. If the pans are not nonstick, lightly butter them.
  2. 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. (A wooden tart tamper can help the job go quickly.) Freeze 5 minutes.

Amount Per Serving

Calories:206.89
Total Fat:14.98g
Saturated Fat:8.99g
Cholesterol:74.23mg
Sodium:470.83mg
Total Carbohydrates:13.91g
Dietary Fiber:1.00g
Protein:5.17g
5 Stars 5 Based on2 Reviews | Write Review

5 Stars
Blackberries bring perfect balance!

By Dilomama

Served this at a holiday gathering and it was a hit! The sweet provided by the blackberries balanced the savory of the cheeses/thyme.

4.5 Stars
Blackberries bring perfect balance!

By Dilomama

Used store-bought frozen ATHENS® MINI FILLO SHELLS, instead of the dough described. The blackberries provided the right balance of sweet to the savory cheeses and thyme. It was a hit!