One of my Christmas presents was a set of tart dishes, so I thought I would try my hand at making some tarts. Of course, I've never made tarts before, so this was a first. I looked up a recipe for making the tart pastry dough. It called for cake flour and all purpose flour. I had all purpose flour, but I needed to buy some cake flour. But as luck would have it, none of the local groceries had cake flour. The only thing I could find was Hodgson Mill Whole Wheat Pastry Flour. So I bought it and used it. Maybe it was not the best choice. It was not milled as fine as I expected. But the tart shells came out looking pretty good for my first attempt. At a quarter of an inch thick, they were a little thicker than I would have liked them. Next time I'll make it closer to an eight inch thick.
Next I made a pastry cream, which came out very good. It had just a hint of sweetness that went well with the fruit which were sweeter. I filled each tart shell about halfway with the pastry cream. Then I covered it with Kiwi, Pineapple, Strawberry, Blackberry, Raspberry, and Blueberry. I made some fresh whipped cream to go with it. It was pretty good, but I will try to find some cake flour and try to do a better job on the tart pastry dough. See a picture of the tart above.
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