Skinny Raspberry Tart with Cinnamon Crust

This Skinny Raspberry Tart with Cinnamon Crust makes for a simple, light and sophisticated summer dessert. Raspberries give this fruit tart a pleasant tartness which is balanced out with brown sugar and a cinnamon-spiced whole wheat crust.

I love, love, love this Skinny Raspberry Tart! I've made it several times, it's always a hit with my friends and my family. And it's always a hit with me. Guess why? This easy light raspberry tart is loaded with cinnamon. And you know that I'm obsessed with cinnamon, right?

For this Skinny Raspberry Tart recipe, you can use either fresh or frozen raspberries. This time, I used frozen ones for the jelly and fresh ones for the tart topping, as I find them prettier when they're fresh.

To make the raspberry jelly for the Raspberry Tart topping, I used agar agar as a substitute for gelatin.

Have you ever tried agar? It's quite an amazing ingredient for making vegan tarts, cakes and desserts. To name a few of its health benefits,  this jelly-like substance is low in calories, fat, sugar, carbs and it's also gluten-free.

Therefore, it is a perfect alternative to gelatin for vegans and vegetarians or for those eating kosher/halal, as agar is made from a seaweed. Learn everything you need to know about agar thanks to this helpful article I wrote. You'll learn where to buy agar, how to use it and so much more.

How to "blind bake" a crust

When making my Skinny Raspberry Tart,  you need to blind bake the crust. But what exactly does that mean?

Basically, blind baking means to pre-baked the tart shell, crust or pastry before adding the filling, here our skinny raspberry filling. It prevents the tart crust from becoming soggy once we add our light raspberry filling.

Blind baking is necessary when the tart shell needs more baking time than the filling, or when you add an unbaked filling (for instance, we don't bake the raspberry filling here).

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Skinny Raspberry Tart with Cinnamon Crust

This Skinny Raspberry Tart with Cinnamon Crust makes for a simple, light and sophisticated summer dessert. Raspberries give this fruit tart a pleasant tartness which is balanced out with brown sugar and a buttery cinnamon-spiced whole wheat crust.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword berries, dessert, easy, patisserie, skinny, summer, sweet, tart, whole wheat

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Servings 8

Calories 246 kcal

Ingredients

For the crust

• 1 ½ cup whole wheat flour
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 ½ tsp if you're not a big fan
• 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature, cut into big chunks
• 4 tbsp brown sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp cold water
• cooking spray or butter

For the filling

• 10 oz + 8 oz raspberries fresh or frozen for the filling, fresh for the topping
• 2 tbsp brown sugar or agave, honey, stevia, splenda...
• 1 tsp agar powder
• 2 tsp hot water

Instructions

1. In a food processor, combine flour, cinnamon, butter chunks, sugar and salt. Pulse 30 seconds. Add cold water and pulse again 30 seconds to form a homogenous dough. Wrap it with plastic wrap and set aside in the fridge.
2. In a heat resistant medium bowl, combine 10 oz raspberries with remaining sugar. Cook 25 minutes in a Bain Marie (or a double boiler).
3. In a small bowl, dissolve agar with hot water. When raspberries are almost done, add agar mixture and mix well. Cook a few minutes. Remove from heat, let cool and set aside in the fridge.

4. Preheat your oven to 410F. Spray a large round tart pan with cooking spray. 

5. Place the dough in the center of the tart pan and roll it out with your hands. Pierce the dough with a fork, cover it with baking paper, and place dried beans (or dry rice, lentils, pie weights) on top of the covering.

6. Bake 25 minutes (It's called blind baking). Don't overbake or your crust will stick to the bottom of the pan. Let cool completely.

7. Whisk raspberries mixture to obtain a jelly and spread it on the bottom of the crust. Arrange remaining raspberries on top. Set aside in the fridge until ready to serve.

Nutrition Facts

Skinny Raspberry Tart with Cinnamon Crust

Amount Per Serving (1 slice)

Calories 246 Calories from Fat 108

% Daily Value*

Fat 12g18%

Saturated Fat 7g44%

Cholesterol 30mg10%

Sodium 5mg0%

Potassium 185mg5%

Carbohydrates 33g11%

Fiber 6g25%

Sugar 11g12%

Protein 3g6%

Vitamin A 375IU8%

Vitamin C 16.7mg20%

Calcium 41mg4%

Iron 1.4mg8%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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