It is off season for blueberries but the canned pie filling will do in a pinch if you want to whip up a delicious gluten free blueberry pie. I wanted individual tarts so everyone would feel special; that I baked them a personal fruit pie; easy to do with this simple filling recipe! I used my flat bottomed tartlet pans.
Don’t eat these tartlets hot; should be cooled to just warm if you like it so or room temperature or even a bit chilled. They were perfect, just like a big pie only tiny and making one individual dessert. You could certainly serve them with vanilla ice cream.
Sorry I have not been posting much lately; busy working and out of town on a retreat. Just been hard to find time to focus on my blog but these tartlets were just too good to not blog about.
Angie’s GF Blueberry Tartlets: makes 6
Crust:
1 c plus 2 tbsp brown rice flour mix (at bottom of recipe)
2 Tbsp. sweet rice flour
1 Tbsp. granulated sugar
½ tsp xanthan gum
¼ tsp salt
6 Tbsp. cold butter cut into 6 chunks
1 large egg
2 tsp fresh orange or lemon juice
You will need 1 square attached set of flat bottom 4 inch tartlet pans or two if you make them all at once. I refrigerated my dough and made the second batch of a day later. Adjust the filling to the number of tartlets you are baking.
Mix dry ingredients in bowl of stand electric mixer. Add butter and mix until crumbly and resembling coarse meal. Add egg and juice. Mix until it comes together into big chunks. Shape into a ball with your hands. Put it on a crust sized piece of wax paper (14 x 14 inches more or less), flatten the crust ball some; put on top of it another piece of wax paper and chill it all in your fridge 15-20 minutes while you prepare the filling.
Filling:
1 21 ounce can of blueberry pie filling
Zest of one small lemon
2 tbsp. lemon juice
Sprinkle of cinnamon
I made it in two parts; used part of can and lemon for each batch. Adjust accordingly.
Break dough into 2 balls, one a bit bigger. Roll out each crust in a pie bag or between the two sheets of wax paper, try to get the thickness even and somewhat thin, no thick middle! Peel off one side of paper and place across the tart pan, centered. Remove other slice of wax paper. Cut into four squares, mold to fit the pan Crimp edges all around. Or not; I left mine kinda rough but it worked. Fill each tartlet with blueberry mixture after you have the crumb topping ready to go. Do the same with the other portion of dough; makes 3 crusts.
Crumb topping
Put all four ingredients in the same mixing bowl you made the bottom crust in and mix well with mixer paddle until crumbs form. If you let them go extra long you get big fat crumbs if you want that look.
¾ c brown rice flour mix
½ c sugar
½ tsp xanthan gum
1/3 c cold butter cut into six chunks
Sprinkle the top of each tartlet with crumb mix; use as much as you like. I didn’t measure; just sprinkled until the fruit was barely visible through the crumbs. Up to your personal taste… It sinks partially into the fruit mixture and adds lots of sweetness and eye appeal. Sprinkle with a touch of cinnamon.
Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 35 minutes until bubbly and the crumb crust is light brown. Cool at least 1 hour before serving at room temperature. I think it is best served the same day you make it, or no more then 18 hours after baking for optimal flavor. The crumbs will get soggy if too much time passes. Mine was still very good the next day.
Note: if you find your bottom crust is not browning enough bake it empty at 375 degrees for 6-7 minutes before filling it with the fruit. I have a bottom heat pizza style oven which gives me perfect pie crust so I don’t ever have pale pie crust. This is a big benefit of having this type of oven; it is a two oven range with a full sized lower oven.
Not a great picture; day after they were baked and after I cut the last tartlet in half. So yummy I totally forgot to take a picture after the first batch!
Brown Rice Flour Mix (Same as King Arthur GF All purpose blend)
2 c brown rice flour (finely ground)
2/3 c potato starch – Not potato flour
1/3 c tapioca flour
Note: the crust and crumb recipe are out of Annalise Roberts cookbook, Gluten Free Baking Classics, Second Edition. Adaptation and filling recipe are mine.
Gluten free Cakes: 
My World Without Wheat 