Easy Strawberry Custard Tart

Round tart with crust filled with vanilla pudding and topped with circles of sliced strawberries.

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5 from 1 vote

Vanilla pudding stands in for custard to make this simple strawberry tart.

Prep Time20

Cook Time25

Chilling Time1 20

Total Time2 5

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 318kcal

Author: Carolyn Hetke

Equipment

11" tart pan

Ingredients

1 ½ cups all purpose flour
½ tsp salt
⅓ cup icing sugar
⅔ cup unsalted butter cold, cut into cubes
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3-4 Tbsps cold water

Custard

1 4 oz instant vanilla pudding
2 cups milk or per package instructions

Topping

1 ½ lbs fresh strawberries hulled and halved vertically
3 Tbsps icing sugar

Instructions

Pulse flour, salt and icing sugar in food processor until well mixed. Add butter and pulse until mixture looks like coarse meal. Add the vanilla and then the ice water, 1 Tbsps at a time pulsing until the dough gathers starts to clump together.
Turn dough mixture out onto a piece of plastic wrap. Gather the dough and press into a ball. Wrap in the plastic wrap and refrigerate one hour or up to overnight. (If refrigerated more than an hour allow 30 minutes for dough to come to room temperature.)
Preheat oven to 375°.
Roll the dough out to a 12 inch circle. Transfer dough to 11" tart pan with removable bottom. Press into the pan and trim the edge flat with the rim. Prick the pastry bottom randomly with a fork. Freeze for 10 minutes to firm up dough. Bake 20-25 minutes until crust is golden.
Cool crust completely.
Make pudding according to package instructions. Allow pudding to set in a bowl until thickly pourable. About minutes. Pour into the crust and refrigerate. See Note 1 below for variation.
Wide end down, tuck strawberry halves into the pudding in concentric circles.
Dust top with remaining 3 Tbsps of icing sugar just before serving.

Notes

Note 1: Substitute 2 Tbsps of the liquid called for in the pudding with liqueur of choice for ex. Grand Marnier, Amaretto. The pudding will be a bit softer.

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