Insanely delicious & easy this Simple No-Bake Fruit Tart is made with an almond graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling, then topped with fresh fruit.
I love no-bake desserts, including this Simple No Bake Fruit Tart for a couple of reasons. Recipes like this don’t heat up your kitchen, typically take under 20 minutes to prepare, and usually involved cream cheese. What’s not to love?
While my son, Cannon loves this no-bake dessert because it focused on his favorite fruits. I have a couple of chocolate lovers that will eat this fruit tart without a complaint but if I were to make my Fudge Brownie No-Bake Cheesecake, I’d be the mother of the year! I save that one for very special occasions as it a little more on the heavy side, lol.
My husband loves this tart as well, just like Cannnon he loves his fruit, his second favorite no-bake dessert would be these No-Bake Salted Caramel Tarts.e As for myself it’s a 3-way tie, I love this tart, the Fudge Brownie No-Bake Cheesecake or No-Bake S’mores Bites.
I love the month of August, besides school starting back up and getting back into the routine of things, fall on the verge of arriving, it is also the time that Colorado has some amazing fruit at the Farmers Market, from peaches to raspberries you can really get anything you desire at a good price.
I love the sales at our grocers too! The berries are always on sale this time of yea and my little one Cannon pretty much would eat a pound of strawberries at every meal if we let him.
My husband loves me making fruit pizza this time of year but I like changing things up. So that’s when we made this Simple No Bake Fruit Tart. We have one secret ingredient in both the fruit pizza and tart recipes, and that is almond extract. My kids and hubby love it! We feel like it is the key to making the tart and the pizza the best ever!
How do you make a No Bake Fruit Tart?
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Prepare crust, whether store bought, or you use the recipe below either will be easy.
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Make the filling by using a mixer or electric beater, mix together the cream cheese and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
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Stir in Cool Whip and almond extract until well combined. Spread evenly over prepared crust and top with fresh fruit, you can choose the variety you want but I personally love the berry mixture.
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Let it set in the fridge for at least an hour. Cut into slices and serve.
Don’t forget to pin this to your favorite Pinterest board to save for later!
Simple No Bake Fruit Tart
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 8 tablespoons butter melted
Filling
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 8 ounce container of Cool Whip
- 1 teaspoon almond extract you may also sub for vanilla extract
Fresh Fruit Topping
- 1/2-3/4 pound strawberries sliced
- 1 pint fresh blueberries
- 1 pint fresh raspberries
Instructions
Crust
- Add all crust ingredients in a food processor and pulse until well combined.
- Press firmly into an 11-inch tart pan or 9x13 pan.
- If you want to leave this as a no-bake crust, set in fridge for 1 hour. If you would like to bake it, preheat oven to 350° and bake for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
Filling
- Using a mixer or electric beater, mix together the cream cheese and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
- Stir in Cool Whip and almond extract until well combined. Spread evenly over prepared crust and top with fresh fruit.
- Let it set in the fridge for at least an hour. Cut into slices and serve.
Notes
This recipe was first published on Dash of Sanity back in August of 2014. When I first started my blog, all I did was share one image a recipe and the kids review. Things have changed in the blogging since then, so I have recently updated it. I kind of love reading the kids reviews so I have saved that here so I can look back later and still enjoy it.
Kids review: They are still trying to convince me that this could be made for breakfast or a dessert. Really, they do have a point. It was an instant top 10 favorite.
It looks so pretty, and looks like the flavor is also delish. And so easy to do. Yeah!, they have a point, cheese, fruits, and cookies for breakfast, excellent!!. Lol
This looks really amazing! And I love the simple part:)
What a delicious tart Sandra! I love the almonds in the crust.
This looks so light and refreshing for the end of summer. I think I almost have everything on hand to make it tonight.
GLad to have found you through #FoodieFriday
Oh my that looks so delicious especially with all those berries! This is my kind of fruit tart. I will definitely be trying this out. Stopping by from “Foodie Fridays”. Thank you for sharing 🙂
This is a great simple dessert with lots of flavor. Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great weekend!
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Miz Helen
This looks delicious! I’m all about the no bake aspect while it’s still so hot here. #FoodieFridays
Hi, I found you from Foodie Fridays. This looks so incredible. I bet it’d be great with fruit super fresh fruit from the farmer’s market. Definitely pinning for later!
This looks beautiful and delicious. Thank you so much for joining us on The Yuck Stops Here recipe link party this week. I hope to see you next week with another great recipe. HUGS
Yum! I love how fresh and simple this is. Shared it on Facebook and Twitter because I have a major craving for this now. 🙂
This looks so delicious! I know my family would love it! I usually don’t make dessert (I leave that to my husband and daughter) but I think I am going to have to try this one!
This looks amazing! Tanya and I both featured it on out blogs this week! Her exact words to me were, “This deserves a double feature!”
http://www.thelifeofjenniferdawn.com/2014/08/a-little-bird-told-me-link-party-105.html
and
http://www.thenaturalhomeschool.com/2014/08/a-little-bird-told-me-every-wednesday_26.html
You guys are awesome, thank you! xo San
Girl, you are speaking my language with this fruit tart. I’m a sucker for ANY dessert that calls for fresh fruit in the summertime, and I haven’t had a tart yet this summer. So clearly, I need to fix this ASAP.
Also, this was one of my favorite links from #thatsfreshfriday last week. Because of this, I’ll be sharing it on my blog tonight and this weekend as a part of this week’s party. I hope to see you back with us this weekend, and keep up the great work!
Hi Dear,
Very nice article, keep up the good work.
This is everything a gourmet dessert should be, and then some! Looking forward to enjoying this after dinner this week!
Thank you, I hope you enjoy it!
This looks like a dessert you’d find in a bakery. Such a showstopper to bring to a party.
Thank you so much!
Yum! You had me had no bake dessert. Love easy dessert recipes like this one.
Thanks, I hope you enjoy this one!
Totally agree that this could be breakfast (I know my little ones would agree!). Just love this easy to make fruit tart!
It definitely is a treat for breakfast! Thanks!
This tart is so creamy. I love the addition of the fruit. The best tart ever!
I’m so glad you like it!
I LOVE no-bake desserts but this one is the best! So delicious and incredibly easy to make
Thank you! I’m so glad you love it!
I can’t get enough fruit (with whipped cream) in the summertime! This looks so beautiful & refreshing!
It really is so delicious and refreshing! Thank you!
This is the perfect end of summer dessert for when it’s too hot to turn on the oven!
Definitely! Enjoy!
It sounds perfect for a clumsy girl like me. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
I’m glad you like it!
This recipe looks so refreshing and made for summer. Do you ever add sugar to the crust mixture? When you bake do you normally use salted or unsalted butter?
Thanks! We usually keep this crust simple since there is so much sugar in the filling and fruit! In most recipes we use salted butter unless it calls for unsalted specifically 🙂
I am making this for the first time tonight. I bought unsalted butter. Will that ruin the taste if I use that instead of salted?
Hi Keri, that shouldn’t change the taste! Salted butter has only about 1/4 teaspoon of salt per stick if you’d like to add some to make up for it, but I don’t think it would be necessary in this case.
This looks great! I am thinking of making it for an upcoming b-day party but although I love almonds my hubby is very allergic to almost all nuts so I am thinking of subbing with chopped peanuts. What do you think?
On another note: when one of your recipes is featured on another blog, clicking their link gets a message that says it is unavailable. Typing in the name of the recipe takes you right to the site so I am not sure why that happens. I noticed it quite often on “365 Days of Baking”
Hi Joanne! You can definitely experiment and use whatever nuts work with your husband’s allergies. You can also leave out the nuts completely and just make it a plain graham cracker crust, it will be just as good!
Thank you for letting us know about the links! I’ll be sure to pass that note along to San to see if it can be fixed.
Absolutely delicious! My adjustments:
*Replace the Cool Whip – Whip heavy whipping cream to stiff peaks; use vanilla extract. Refrigerate in bowl a few hours/overnight. Yields a lighter, more pure taste. and so easy!
*Use regular pie crust, homemade or the Pillsbury rolled. Pre-bake; cool to room temp. Again, an overall fresher taste and doesn’t combat flavors of that yum filling and the berries!
*Just before serving – top all with sprinkling of sliced almonds. That little extra crunch is a-mazing!