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These Tasty Mini Coconut Tarts, are decadent and sweet pastry crusts filled with fluffy, sticky coconut filling.
Tasty Mini Coconut Tarts
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 24 tartlets 1x
- Category: Cake, Cookies and Tarts, Cupcakes
- Method: Easy
Description
These Tasty Mini Coconut Tarts, are decadent with sweet pastry crusts and filled with fluffy, sticky coconut filling.
Ingredients
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- 115g margarine
- 1/2 cup castor sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 1/2 cup Apricot jam
- Red or green cherries
Filling
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tbsp soft butter
- 1 1/2 cup coconut
- 1/2 cup icing sugar
Instructions
Tart Shells
- Beat butter and sugar well.
- Add egg.
- Sift the dry ingredients and add to the cream mixture.
- Mix into a soft dough, you may need a little more flour to get a nice firm dough.
- Roll and cut about 1/4 cm thick round shapes.
- Grease patty pans or cupcake tins.
- Place the round shapes in the pan and add 1 tsp jam and top with coconut filling.
- Bake at 180C / 350F for about 20 minutes
Filling
- Beat egg white till stiff
- Add butter & rest of the ingredients.
- Once the tart shells are ready and cold, fill them with jam and top them with coconut filling and decorate them with a cherry if you wish.
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested by Rashida from The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes from Home Chefs
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tart
- Calories: 167
- Sugar: 17.2 g
- Sodium: 169.6 mg
- Fat: 4.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 30.2 g
- Fiber: 1.3 g
- Protein: 2.5 g
- Cholesterol: 7.8 mg
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