10 Pie and Tart Recipes for Dessert
Choose from pastry-shell tarts, free-form galettes and chilled desserts with crumb or oat crusts. These ten recipes include apples, berries, peaches, mango, custard, chocolate and maple-raisin filling. Some are baked and others set in the refrigerator; the notes below make that distinction clear.
1. Spiced Apple Galette
Sliced apples are tossed with cinnamon and nutmeg inside a folded pastry made with plain and almond flours. Chill the pastry before rolling, and leave a border to fold around the fruit.
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2. Mango Coconut Chia Tart
A chilled oat-and-coconut crust holds coconut chia pudding topped with mango slices. This is a no-bake option, but the pudding and assembled tart both need refrigeration time.
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3. Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Tart
A graham-cracker crust holds a lemon cream-cheese filling with blueberries. The filling sets in the refrigerator rather than the oven, with at least four hours of chilling specified.
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4. Lemon Blueberry Pie with Coconut Topping
A lemon filling made with egg yolks and cornstarch is combined with blueberries in a prepared pastry shell. Coconut whipped topping is added after chilling; start with the recipe’s baked-and-cooled crust and allow for the filling to set.
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5. Custard Tart with Puff Pastry
A puff-pastry shell is blind-baked before an egg-and-milk custard is added. Nutmeg finishes the top, and the tart needs cooling time before slicing.
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6. Summer Berry Galette
A whole wheat pastry crust folds around mixed berries, with honey for sweetness. The open center shows the fruit, and the linked recipe explains the thickener and folding steps.
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7. Bakewell Tart
Raspberry jam sits beneath an almond frangipane filling in a pastry shell. This is an almond-based tart, so it is a different choice from a fresh-fruit galette or custard tart.
8. Peach and Thyme Galette
Thinly sliced peaches, thyme and lemon juice fill a folded butter pastry. Plan for the dough’s chilling time and the galette’s rest after baking before slicing.
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9. Coffee Chocolate Ganache Tart
An almond-flour crust holds dark chocolate ganache flavored with cold-brew coffee concentrate. This tart sets in the refrigerator and does not require an oven bake.
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10. Maple Raisin Butter Tarts
Small pastry shells are filled with maple syrup, brown sugar, eggs and raisins. The individual tarts are baked in a muffin tin and cooled before serving.
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Baked or chilled?
For an oven-baked fruit dessert, start with an apple, berry or peach galette. Mango-chia, lemon-blueberry cheesecake and coffee-chocolate ganache tarts are chilled options. Plan crust preparation, filling cooling and refrigeration before deciding when dessert will be ready.
Before you start
Read the complete recipe and check its pan size, ingredient preparation and cooling or chilling steps. Use the specified flour and follow any separate topping instructions. Storage needs vary across these recipes; use each recipe’s guidance rather than one rule for the whole collection.
