The Missing Tarts

On November 11, 2009 the Queen of Hearts lost her tarts and families were invited to help her find them. I had eight in attendance and the kids had fun making tarts to eat.

I read The Missing Tarts by B. G. Hennessy. We made the tarts and while they were baking we played several games.

Games: Hot Potato, Red Light Green Light, Duck Duck Goose, Monkey in the Middle, Simon Sez, and Sit down Balloon Volleyball.

How to make the tarts: Refrigerated pie crust, circle cookie cutter, rolling pin, flour, mini muffin pans, and pie filling.

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

We made cherry tarts and chocolate chip cookie tarts.

Sprinkle some flour on a flat surface. Place the pie crust on the flour. With the rolling pin roll out crust to be a little bit thinner. This way you can get 24 or more circles. If you want the crust to be thicker don't roll it out. Once it's rolled out take the circle cookie cutter and cut out as many rounds as you can. You can then roll the scraps out to make more. Place a round over a mini muffin cup and using your fingers gently press the dough into the muffin cup. Once all the cups are filled drop a couple teaspoons full of pie filling into each. I used a can of cherry pie filling.

Bake between 12-15 minutes or until crust is browned.

For the chocolate chip cookie tarts I used the Nestle Toll House recipe for chocolate chip cookie pie. I would recommend for the tarts instead of mixing in the chocolate chips into the batter place a few chocolate chips into each muffin cup and then spoon the batter over. Don't fill to the top. When I baked them they were starting to overflow in the oven. This way you could use different flavored chips like butterscotch or white chocolate instead of just chocolate. They baked at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. Eating one is plenty these are very rich but the kids loved them. As you can see from the picture above that the chocolate chip cookie tarts were pretty much wiped out. There were like 3 left.