Posted by ann_t (My Page) on Tue, Dec 8, 09 at 22:53 Everyone seems to like this one. Enough filling to make two pies/tarts Home Cookin Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table White Chocolate Cream cheese Raspberry Tart =========================================== Shortbread Tart Pastry ====================== 1 cup butter, room temperature 1/2 cup Icing sugar (powdered sugar) 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour Place the flour and icing sugar in the bowl of a food processor. Cut the butter into pieces and add to the bowl. Using the pulse function process the mixture until it forms a ball. White Chocolate Cream Cheese Filling 8 ounces white chocolate melted (I melt in the microwave on medium low heat in 20 to 30 second intervals) Stir in between. Chocolate should not be hot. 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature 2 large eggs 1 cup heavy cream 1/2 white sugar 2 to 3 teaspoons vanilla extract Fresh Raspberries (enough filling for two pies) Preheat oven to 425°F. Prepare the crust first. Divide dough into 4 equal pieces and place in the bottom of a tart pan with removeable bottom. Using your fingers pat the dough evenly along the sides and bottom of the pan. Prick with a fork and put in the freezer for 15 minutes. Prick again. Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until crust is golden. Check after the first 6 or 7 minutes and if the pastry is rising up, flatten gently with a fork. Remove from oven and let cool on a rack. Lower the temperature to 350°F Filling Beat the cream cheese with sugar until soft and creamy. Add the eggs and continue to beat. Beat in melted white chocolate,cream and vanilla. Decorate tart shell with raspberries. Slowly pour the cream cheese filling around the berries. Bake for approximately 25 to 30 minutes or until the filling is set. Let cool on rack. May be decorated with melted chocolate.

Thanks so much guys! Yep, another year older, very bittersweet this year. Chase was looking for a good butter-tart recipe last year and I posted Mom's. She made them, loves the recipe and expressed her thanks to Mom. I'm sorry to say that Mom passed on August 1. We were extremely close and it's not easy for me. So thanks for the good wishes, they mean a lot to me.

These are wonderful. Home Cookin 4.9 Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table ==================== Source: Williams-Somona 8 oz tart pastry dough (or frozen puff pastry) 3 oz spinach or Swiss Chard 1 egg 2/3 cups heavy cream 3/4 cup freshly grated Emmenthaler Cheese 1/4 teasoon freshly grated nutmeg salt and pepper 3 oz Blue Cheese (Roquefort, Gorgonzola,etc.) 2 Tablespoons pine nuts . If using tart pastry, prepare the dough and refrigerator 30 minutes before you are eady to roll it out. If using commercial puff pastry defrost in the refrigerator or at room temperature. Preheat an oven to 425°F. Bring a large saucepan filled with water to a boil. Plunge the spinach or Swiss Chard into the boiling water and cook for 30 seconds. Immediately drain in a colander and rinse with cold water to halt the cooking. Drain again, pressing against the greens to force out as much water as possible; set aside. Break the egg into a bowl. Add the cream, Emmenthaler cheese, nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste and beat with a fork until completely blended. Coarsley chop the spinach or chard and add it to the bowl; stir well. On a lightly floured board, roll the dough out as thinkly as possible. Sprinkle the Roquefort or other blue cheese evently over the dough. With a fluted pastry cutter about 1 1/4 inches in diameter, cut out 18 dough rounds. Use the rounds to line 18 individual tartlet pans or wells in tartlet trays or miniature muffin pans. If using the former, arrange the lines pans on a large baking sheet. Fill each lined pan with some of the egg mixture and scatter a few pine nuts on top. Place the tarlets in the oven and bake until the filling sets and the crust is golden, about 15 minutes. Serve Warm.

What you are describing is EXACTLY what we had at the Adobe Grand Villas in Sedona a few weeks ago. The chef there, who is outstanding, took phyllo dough, and used a scalloped edged cookie cutter, or must have used a sharp edged scalloped cutter with a circle form to use as a model, and he cut out the phyllo dough into circles. He then put them into pam sprayed mini cupcake/muffin tins, with the homemade tart sweet tangy lemon curd in them and baked them. The Phyllo dough was cooked, but "just", and they were lightly crisp and wonderful. The lemon curd was delectible and cooked well, perfectly. I have no idea what temperature he baked them at.. but, my guess would be 350. After they were done, he sprinkled them with powdered sugar and served them on silver trays. They were garnished with a slice of fresh strawberry, a thin, but nice slice, not a half or third, more like a fourth or fifth of a berry's slice, laying right on top, with a tiny little basil leaf at the top. The flavors of the tart lemon with the strawberry and basil was FANTASTIC!! Amazingly fantastic. My husband would have never ever in a bazillion years eaten them had he known that was basil.. to him, basil is SAVORY and not a herb to mix with sweet. And, he was almost embarrassing the way he gobbled them up!! I wish I had taken a picture of them.. they were so pretty and so good. He probably used three or four sheets of phyllo before cutting the circles. And, I would guess you'd need to spray or butter the tins fairly well to get the phyllo to "stick" and stay in the muffin tins. I don't know if you should try this the first time out for serving to guests, but give it a shot. It looked fairly easy to me, and the results were incredible!! Let me know if you try this!! Also.. when I make Lemon Tassies.. I use the cream cheese dough and then load them with lemon filling. Yummie in the tummie and very, very easy. They are soft and moist and delicously rich. The phyllo dough ones were far superior for light and crispy and wonderfully tart, tangy, and wonderful.