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Why You’ll Love My Recipe

There’s something gloriously summery and fresh about a strawberry tart. Make a batch of these delicious tarts with your end-of-season strawberries and top them off with some whipped cream for a sweet summer snack.

Make sure to make your own Cream Cheese Pastry for this recipe, or learn how to make The Best Pie Crust Recipe to try instead. If you’d like something less summery, check out this Treacle Tarts Recipe or My Favorite Butter Tarts Recipe.

Nine mini tartlets filled with strawberries and a glossy glaze are arranged on a rectangular white tray, with fresh strawberry slices and whole strawberries placed around for decoration.

Karlynn’s Recipe Notes

Skill Level: This recipe is very easy, especially if you bake tart shells in advance.
Total Time: Assembling these tarts will take you under 15 minutes. The time on the recipe card doesn’t account for the time it takes to prebake your tart shells. For that information, go to the Cream Cheese Pastry recipe itself.
Variations: Top these tarts with strawberry or lemon whipped cream before serving them. Learn how to make perfect whipped cream. Add some mint as a garnish or try a different fruit. Other berries, slices of fresh peach or nectarine, even some ripe kiwi would work well with the pastry and filling used in this recipe. You can also use frozen tart shells from a store, just remember to prebake those according to their directions.
Tools Needed: You’ll need a medium pot and some sort of pan or tray for your assembled tarts. For prebaking the cream cheese pastry, you can use a muffin tin. A good whisk will make it easier to keep lumps out of your filling, and you’ll need a paring knife or a strawberry huller to prep your berries.

Mini tart shells filled with glossy strawberry topping are arranged on a white surface, with fresh whole and sliced strawberries nearby. More tarts and a glass of milk appear in the background.

What You’ll Need For Ingredients

Cream Cheese Pastry: One batch, prebaked into tart form. Alternatively, you could use prebaked frozen tart shells.

Strawberries: Fresh is best for this recipe and you’ll need to hull them.

Filling: This is easy to make from scratch with cornstarch, apple juice, and white sugar. If you’d prefer, you can find packaged mixes in stores, but they’re basically just cornstarch and sugar anyway.

Fresh strawberries, flour, powdered sugar, granulated sugar, cubed butter, cubed cream cheese, honey in a jar, and a pinch of salt arranged neatly on a white marble surface with a beige cloth nearby.

How To Make Strawberry Tarts

This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.

A glass bowl with cubed butter on a marble surface, surrounded by strawberries, a bowl of sugar, and metal beaters.

A glass bowl filled with cookie dough sits on a marble countertop, surrounded by a wooden spoon, fresh strawberries, a bowl of sugar, a bowl of flour, and a white cloth.

Prepare your cream cheese pastry dough and prebake it into tart shells.
Mix dry ingredients together in a medium pot. Slowly stir in apple juice. Cook at medium heat and stir constantly for 3 minutes, until the mixture thickens.
Let the glaze cool for 10 minutes and then put a small amount of it into each of your prebaked tart shells.
Add your strawberries to the tarts. Spoon the remaining glaze over the tarts. Refrigerate until you’re ready to serve them.

A close-up of a mini tart filled with glazed strawberries and custard, with whole strawberries and more tarts in the background on a white surface.

Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Strawberry Tarts

Keep it Fresh: Whether you use strawberries or try a different fruit, stick with fresh. Frozen fruit, while delicious and convenient for many things, will be too watery for this recipe.

Prepare: Have your tart shells prebaked and cooled in advance. You can also hull your strawberries beforehand and then slice them as needed. You can use a strawberry huller for this or remove the hull fairly easily with the tip of a sharp knife.

Additions: Try a Whipped Cream Cheese tucked under the strawberries, or smeared on top of the tarts. Or serve these tarts alongside a platter of fresh fruit and some Cream Cheese Fruit Dip. If you’d really like to amp things up, try using Chocolate Covered Strawberries in your tarts.

A group of fruit tarts on a white plate.

Storage Instructions

Refrigerate: These tarts can be stored in the fridge in an air-tight container for up to 4 days.

More Delicious Tart Recipes

Looking for more delicious Tart recipes?

Try a classic, earthy Sweet Potato Pie this holiday season.

Treacle Tarts and Mincemeat Tarts with Butter Pastry are heavier, richer options, while these Lemon Tarts are fresh and zingy.

Try making your own Graham Cracker Crust for future pie endeavors.

There you have it, a delicious and easy treat that screams summer. This recipe is deceptively simple, giving you the building blocks for a variety of tart and pie options. Try it out and let me know how you like it.

Happy Baking!

Karlynn