Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart

This gorgeous, shockingly easy Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart Recipe is bursting with ripe fresh strawberries and delicious almond cream filling that puffs in the oven to peek around the berries and make a lustrous golden brown crust. ⁠ ⁠

If you love my easy strawberry cobbler recipe, you will definitely adore this.

Strawberry Tart Recipe

A classic strawberry tart is usually made with a sweetened pastry dough (a.k.a. pate sucree), first blind baked and then filled with pastry cream and chilled to set before topping with fresh berries.

My super easy strawberry tart recipe uses puff pastry for simplicity, and an almond cream that is a 2-minute food processor/blender task.⁠

Why I love this recipe:

  • Crust: simple frozen puff pastry, no need to blind bake, fuss with pie weights, or own a tart pan with a removable bottom. The freeform nature we call “rustic” is intended to be imperfect.

  • Filling: instead of making a delicate milk-and-egg yolk custard, we’re making an easy almond cream frangipane (franjy-panee). The flavour nods to the classic berries-and-cream vibe with butter, egg and vanilla, but uses almonds instead of dairy. No need to worry about the egg mixture curdling in hot milk, or chilling the tart to set before serving).

  • Strawberries: a traditional strawberry tart piles fresh strawberries on top, with a glaze to hold everything in place. In this recipe, we slice the berries and cook them on top of the almond cream. The strawberries’ sweetness and flavour concentrates in the oven, and you don’t need to rely so heavily on having perfect berries (although I definitely lucked out this time — look at how red they were all the way through!).
  • Bottom line: this strawberry tart looks fancy, sounds fancy, and tastes fancy but is deceptively simple with far fewer steps than the traditional version and requires no chill time before serving. Dessert faster? Yes please.

How long will a strawberry tart last in the fridge?

This tart is truly best served on the day it’s made, before the strawberries have time to soften, but leftovers are perfectly fine for about 3 days in the fridge wrapped in plastic wrap.

Note that pie crusts and tart shells get harder after refrigerating them, and the strawberry juices will make the frangipane get soggy with time (both issues are the same for traditional strawberry tarts).

Because it comes together quickly and requires no time to set before serving, I recommend making it as close as possible to the time you want to enjoy it.

How to make this recipe:

To make the frangipane mixture, simply combine all ingredients in a small food processor or blender to puree. If you don’t own either, substitute the same quantity (by weight) of almond butter and whisk it together by hand in a medium bowl.

To assemble the strawberry tart, you need a rolling pin, a baking sheet and parchment paper. If your puff pastry comes with two discs, save one for another purpose. Roll thawed dough into a rough circle, spread the almond cream in the middle, top with strawberries and fold the dough edges over the filling. See the recipe below for step-by-step directions with photos.

Other Strawberry Tart recipes you’ll love:

If you’d prefer a fresh strawberry tart recipe with a cream cheese kind of filling, I have a delicious Strawberry-Lemon Mascarpone Tart with your name on it.

I’ve also got a gorgeous Strawberry White Chocolate Tart recipe. It also sounds fancy, but the mousse filling only has two ingredients: cooled, melted white chocolate and whipped cream.

And if you want a totally no-bake recipe that’s as easy as … well, easier than pie, you can’t miss my Strawberry Icebox Cake. It takes just 5 ingredients and 15 minutes, come on.

Easy Strawberry Almond Tart Recipe

Strawberry Tart with Almond Cream

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 6
Dessert
American
Keyword Strawberry Tart

Ingredients
  

For Almond Cream:

  • ½ cup almonds (70 grams) blanched and sliced/slivered are best
  • cup sugar
  • ¼ cup softened butter
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • tsp almond extract only if you have it
  • Pinch of salt

For Tart:

  • 1 sheet puff pastry ½ of a 397g box, at room temperature
  • 1 lb California strawberries thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 egg

Instructions
 

For Almond Cream:

  • In a small food processor or blender, first pulse almonds to a fine meal, then add remaining ingredients and puree until smooth.

For Tart:

  • On a lightly floured surface, roll dough into a rough circle, pretty thin (specifics don’t matter).
    Roll out pastry
  • Spread almond cream in the middle, leaving a 1 ½” border. Arrange the strawberries over the cream.
    Add strawberry tart filling
  • Fold the edges of the pastry up over the filling, pressing together overlap and seal it.
    How to fold pastry edges over filling
  • Beat egg with a bit of water and brush a bit over the pastry (save the rest for scrambled eggs). Sprinkle sugar over crust and strawberries. Chill for 20 minutes while you preheat the oven to 400ºF.
    Egg wash on strawberry tart.
  • Bake on middle rack for 30-40 minutes, until crust is light brown, strawberries are bubbling and the almond cream is puffed and golden. Let cool for at least 10 minutes before serving.

Notes

If you don’t have a food processor, use 70 g of almond butter in place of whole almonds and whisk everything together by hand or with a hand mixer. 
Keyword Strawberry Tart

Last Updated on May 12, 2023 by Jennifer Pallian BSc, RD

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