Mini Huckleberry Crumb Tarts

I establish this recipe, a spell back, on The Life together with Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch together with decided to laissez passer it a try. I bring used the pastry vanquish many times inwards other recipes similar Pecan Tassies, exactly I never stance of using it alongside a fruit filling until Shelby's post....what a slap-up idea!!

CRUST

iii ounces cream cheese (Shelby uses fatty free)
1/2 loving cup butter at room temperature
1 loving cup all role flour

Mix until smooth, roll inwards plastic together with chill for an hour.  This dough is lovely together with really tardily to function with. While the dough is chilling, brand the huckleberry filling.

BLUEBERRY FILLING

four cups of blueberries (if frozen - thaw together with drain well)
Juice of ane lemon
3/4 loving cup saccharide (Shelby uses Splenda)
1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed alongside 1/8 loving cup mutual frigidity water

Mix the blueberries, lemon juice together with saccharide inwards a heavy bottomed saucepan. Bring to a deadening boil together with and thus whisk inwards the cornstarch slurry (cornstarch together with H2O mixed together). Keep stiring thus that lumps practice non form. Continue to laid upwardly together with stir for 1-2 minutes or until really thick.  Remove from oestrus together with permit cool.

CRUMB TOPPING

1 loving cup all role flour
iii tablespoons brownish saccharide (Shelby uses Splenda brownish sugar)
iii tablespoons butter at room temperature

Work these ingredients together, alongside your fingers, until you lot instruct a soft crumbly texture.

NOTE: This makes a TON of crumb topping. I cutting the ingredients inwards one-half together with I STILL had besides much topping, thus I lay the remainder inwards the freezer for my side yesteryear side baking project.

ASSEMBLY

Roll the chilled dough into 1" balls (this recipe makes most 20-24 tarts). Place each ball of dough into ungreased mini-cupcake pan.

Use a tart tamper (or anything inwards your kitchen that has a large rounded halt that you lot tin use) to tamp downwards the dough, making certain the dough comes upwardly on the sides of each tart. You tin also utilization your fingers to brand a low inwards the dough ball together with function the pastry crust upwardly the sides of the tart well.

Fill each tart alongside the cooled huckleberry filling together with a generous teaspoon of the crumb topping.

Bake inwards a pre-heated 375 oven for 15-20 minutes (my oven took 25 minutes) or until the crust gets a prissy golden color. Let the tarts COOL IN THE PAN for 10-15 minutes earlier lifting them out.

NOTE: I love versatile recipes similar this one. I intend ANY fruit filling would function good here; I'm trying apple tree next!!

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