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32 sweet tarts to brighten your day

Try stopping at just one slice.
Pear tarte Tatin

Corella pear tarte Tatin

Ben Dearnley

There’s a lot that happens when a sweet tart is served up: the beauty of spoon sinking into the top through to the yielding, custardy middle, and the sweet resistance of the golden pastry base. Some like their sweet tarts rich and chocolate-filled; others, tessellated with the best of the season’s pickings. Whichever recipe you choose, one thing is for sure: you won’t be able to stop at one slice.

Photo: James Moffatt

Rhubarb and berry Linzertorte

A whole lemon tart on a black wire rack being dusted with icing sugar.
Photo: Rob Shaw

How to make a lemon tart

Vanilla custard and burnt-toffee tart
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Vanilla custard and burnt-toffee tart

Napier Quarter's frangipane tart with orange and sweet labne
Photo: Mark Roper

Napier Quarter’s frangipane tart with orange and sweet labne

Pear brioche tart with maple custard cream
Photo: William Meppem

Pear brioche tart with maple custard cream

Fine apple tart
Photo: Dean Wilmot

How to make a fine apple tart

Chocolate tart

Chocolate tart

Rhubarb galette
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Rhubarb galette

Blueberry tart
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Dave Pynt’s blueberry tart

Salted caramel and chocolate ganache tart
Photo: Alicia Taylor

Guillaume Brahimi’s salted caramel and chocolate ganache tart

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Brioche apple custard tart

Alistair Wise's custard tart
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Alistair Wise’s custard tart

Passionfruit tart
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Nadine Ingram’s passionfruit tart

Salted-caramel macadamia tart with chocolate ganache
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Salted-caramel macadamia tart with chocolate ganache

Photo: Chris Chen

Gin and lime tart with confit cumquats

Grape and rapadura tart
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Grape and rapadura tart

A flat apple tart, with the top-left corner sliced off, on baking paper and a metal tray.
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Squished apple tart

Photo: Alicia Taylor

Dairy-free honey and macadamia tart with figs and blackberries

Lemon-buttermilk tart
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Lemon-buttermilk tart

Nectarine tarte Tatin with vanilla and thyme
Photo: Kara Rosenlund

Fleet’s nectarine tarte Tatin with vanilla and thyme

Photo: William Meppem

Curtis Stone’s dark chocolate and strawberry tart

Rhubarb and chamomile tart
Photo: William Meppem

The Agrarian Kitchen’s rhubarb and chamomile tart

Photo: Mikkel Vang

Rhubarb and chocolate tart

Photo: William Meppem

Flour & Stone’s Italian Easter tart

Photo: William Meppem

Apricot frangipane tart

Rhubarb spelt tart
Photo: Mark Roper

The Summertown Aristologist’s rhubarb spelt tart

Tarte fine aux pommes
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Tarte fine aux pommes

Golden square tin holding hand-sized custard tarts with burnished tops, each in their own white paper casing. There's also a glass holding a rose-pink speckled bauble, which is kind of weird, but we'll take it.
Photo: Mark Roper

Lauren Eldridge’s eggnog custard tarts

Photo: Sharyn Cairns

Risogalo tart

Golden mango and passionfruit caramel tart
Photo: William Meppem

Golden mango and passionfruit caramel tart

Over the top shot of a round tart topped withwhite chocolate and figs
Photo: James Moffatt

Jaclyn Koludrovic’s gluten-free lemon verbena, white chocolate and fig tart

Pear tarte Tatin
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Corella pear tarte Tatin

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