Fruit Tart Recipe with Oranges: Fresh & Easy Dessert
A super easy, but heavenly delicious fruit tart with clementines as the topping, a custard filling, and a vanilla wafer crust.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Vanilla Wafer Crumbs, about 10 cookies crushed
- 3 tbsp Melted Butter
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- ½ cup Fresh Orange Juice, 2 to 3 oranges freshly squeezed
- 2 tsp Finely Grated Orange Peel
- ½ cup Sugar
- 5 Egg Yolks, beaten
- ½ cup Heavy Cream
- 4 Oranges, tangerines and/or clementines
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine cookie crumbs, butter and sugar; Press into 9 inch pie plate. Bake for 10 minutes.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together juice, peel and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Whisk in egg yolks and cream. Pour into prepared pie crust and bake about 30 minutes, until set.
- Let cool completely, then cover and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 3 hours.
- Cut the citrus fruit into circles and arrange on top of tart.
- For pretty circles that preserve more of the orange, remove the peel and white pith, then cut into horizontal slices.