This Berry Cheesecake Puff Pastry Tart is the easiest dessert you can serve for your family or guests. It’s the perfect dessert when you are short on time but want a WOW factor. Pastry sheets with a mascarpone cheesecake filling and topped with your favorite berries make the perfect combination of flavors.
This is a wonderful dessert to serve for the Holidays! It looks gorgeous and tastes even better! Like our puff pastry wreath, which is another easy puff pastry dessert.
Fresh berries pair perfectly with the cheesecake filling, making a great combination. This is a dessert made in heaven. No one will guess how easy it was to make the dessert.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Simple, yet beautiful. This pastry is so easy to make, but it looks so gorgeous.
- Crowd pleaser. This dessert is a fan favorite!
- A few ingredients. You only need a few ingredients to make this delicious dessert.
Ingredients for the Berry Tart
- Puff pastry – thawed, store-bought puff pastry makes this recipe extra simple.
- Cream cheese and mascarpone – crucial components of the cheesecake cream.
- Sugar – sweetens the cream and adds texture.
- Heavy whipping cream – makes the cream fluffy.
- Berries – an assortment of your favorite berries.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of ingredients and quantities
How to Make Cheesecake Puff Pastry
- Puff pastry: Place a thawed puff pastry sheet onto a baking sheet. Use a sharp knife to score a rectangle around the edges, leaving ½ inch from the edge. Poke holes with a fork all over the dough. Bake at 400°F for 10-12 minutes. Repeat with the second sheet.
- Make the cream: Beat together cream cheese, mascarpone, and sugar.
- In a separate bowl, beat heavy whipping cream until you get stiff peaks.
- Gently fold heavy cream into the cheese and sugar mixture.
- Once the pastry sheets are cooled, press the center lightly, making room for the cream. Then layer on the cheesecake cream and spread evenly onto both puff pastries.
- Finish with your favorite berries, and enjoy!
Expert Tips for Baking Like a Pro
- Keep oven closed: Don’t open the oven door while baking. It will prevent the dough from getting a good rise.
- Make ahead: If you want to make this tart ahead of time, simply bake the dough and make the cream, but don’t assemble until you are ready to serve.
Recipe FAQs
You can use any berries you have on hand. I used strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. I’ve tried the tart with just raspberries, and it was great. Strawberries alone are great as well. Use whatever your favorite combination is, and enjoy the tart.
Yes! You can bake the pastry tart a day in advance and keep it covered. The cream may also be prepared a day in advance and refrigerated. Then, add the cream to the tart and top with berries before serving.
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Berries Cheesecake Puff Pastry Tart
Ingredients
- 17.3 oz puff pastry sheets 1 package, thawed (2 sheets)
- 8 oz cream cheese, room temp
- 8 oz mascarpone cheese
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream cold
- 1/2 cup sugar
- favorite berries
- powdered sugar for dusting optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Place thawed pastry sheets onto a baking sheet.
- With a sharp knife or pizza cutter, score a rectangle around the edges of the pastry sheet, about ½” – ¾” from the edge, don’t cut all the way through. Generously poke the middle of the pastry with a fork, repeat with second sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes until pastry sheet is golden (don’t open the oven mid-baking).
- Meanwhile, prepare the cream. Beat together the cream cheese and mascarpone cheese and sugar.
- In a separate bowl, beat the heavy whipping cream until stiff peaks form.
- Fold the heavy whipping cream gently into the bowl with cream cheese.
- Once the pastry tart cools, push down the center part tart making room for cream. Add the cream to the middle portion of each tart dividing equally.
- Top with your favorite berries.
- Enjoy immediately or refrigerate.