Classic Fruit Tart

Classic Fruit Tart Ingredients:
1 basic tart dough

For Pastry Cream Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 4 large egg yolks
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch(cornflour)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

For Fruit Topping Ingredients:
- 1 mango, peeled
- 2 cups strawberries, hulled
- 1 cup raspberries
- 2 or 3 kiwifruits, peeled
- 1/2 cup berries
- 1/3 cup apricot jam

Steps for Crust Tart:
1. Firm the dough on the tart pan, and trim off excess.
2. Freeze or refrigerate tart shell for 30 minutes.
3. Preheat oven 375f.
4. Line tart pan with aluminum foil and put pie weight(or rice or beans) on the middle of tart.
5. Bake till dough is set and dry for 25 minutes.
6. Remove weight and foil and continue to bake until crust golden. Let cool.

Steps for Pastry Cream:
1. Heat milk over medium heat until tiny bubbles appear. Remove from heat.
2. Whisk egg yolks and sugar until pale yellow.
3. Add cornstarch and salt, then whisk well.
4. Pour in half hot milk into yolk mixture while whisking constantly.
5. Whisk in remaining milk.
6. Return mixture to medium heat and continue whisking till mixture thicken to pudding-like.
7. Scrape into a bowl and whisk in vanilla.
8. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, 2 to 3 hours.

Steps for Assemble:
1. Assemble tart, stir the chilled pastry until smooth.
2. Spoon pastry cream onto the tart.
3. Decorate with the fruits given.

Steps for Sauces:
1. Heat apricot jam over low heat until liquefies.
2. Strain into small bowl.
3. Brush the assemble fruit tarts with thin coating of jam.
4. Serve at room temperature.

credit to Fruit Dessert