MADDIE DAY here, trying to stay cool as I scramble to finish Murder in the Rusty Anchor, due on Wednesday!
Still, it's high summer. Around here that means picking blueberries from my own bushes and picking up raspberries and sweet corn at the farm stand. What better than an easy summer fruit tart for dessert after a delicious dinner of grilled salmon and corn on the cob?
Doesn't that pie look fabulous? That's how it tastes! I took the extra-easy route and used a premade pie crust, but of course you can make your own from scratch (which I'm more likely to do in the cooler months).
Summer Fruit Tart
Ingredients
1 prepared and baked pie
crust (homemade or commercial), cooled
8 ounces softened cream cheese
(not whipped)
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups blueberries
1 cup raspberries
1/4 cup apple or currant jelly
Directions
Mix the cream cheese, sugar, and sour cream.
Arrange the fruit in any
kind of pleasing motif.
Melt the fruit jelly in
microwave or a small saucepan and paint on the arranged fruit with a brush.
Chill.
Serve as is or with whipped
cream. And enjoy!
Readers: Favorite fruit pie? Summer fruit?
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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.
