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Delicious vegan desserts don't come any easier than these peach upside down tarts. The herb cream cheese adds even more garden fresh flavour! Recipe on thecookandhim.com | #vegandessertrecipes #veganpastries #upsidedowntarts #creamcheesetarts #puffpastry

Peach Upside Down Tarts

Prep: 10 mins | Cook: 25 mins | Total: 35 mins | Quantity: 8 tarts

Ingredients

  • 6-8 peaches
  • 2 tablespoons demerara sugar
  • 1/4 cup (45g) vegan plain cream cheese
  • 1 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cornflour
  • 1-2 stalks fresh thyme (or sub with 1/4 tsp dried)
  • 10 fresh mint leaves (or sub with 1 tsp dried)
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • pinch turmeric
  • 1 sheet pre-rolled puff pastry

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 180 Fan / 200 C / 400 F / Gas 6 and line 1-2 baking trays with parchment of silicon mats
  2. Thickly slice the peaches into segments - discarding the stone
  3. Lay the peach slices in groups of 5-6 slices, spacing evenly or overlapping a little.  Space them fairly far apart on the tray as they will be covered with rectangles of the puff pastry.  You want 8 'piles' of peach slices
  4. Put the cream cheese in a small bowl, the icing sugar and cornflour and mix together with a small whisk or spoon
  5. Remove the thyme leaves from the stalks and shred the mint leaves. Stir them into the cream cheese mixture
  6. In another small bowl mix the milk with the turmeric
  7. Unroll your puff pastry sheet and cut into 8 equal rectangles
  8. Put a teaspoon or so of the cream cheese mixture in the middle of each of the pastry rectangles then spread out, leaving a 1 inch border all the way round
  9. Carefully lift the pastry off the paper sheet and invert onto the peaches, so that the cream cheese is underneath and directly on top of the peaches
  10. Brush the top of the pastry all over with the turmeric milk then pop the tray(s) in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the pastry is well risen and golden
  11. Before the pastries cool too much lift the pastries off the tray and turn them over - this prevents the sugar from setting and making it a little more of a task turning them over!

Notes

  • Swap out the thyme for basil or tarragon
  • Tip: After you've unrolled the puff pastry lift it off the paper it comes with then put it back down on the paper - this just helps when you come to lift up the individual rectangles as they'll have warmed up a bit and be more stuck to the paper!

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/peach-upside-down-tarts/