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This easy phyllo fruit tart has a flaky crust topped with cream cheese frosting, fresh fruit, and a white chocolate drizzle. It’s the perfect light spring or summer dessert.
Phyllo Dough Fruit Tart Recipe
This fresh fruit tart on flaky phyllo dough is a colorful treat that I love making for a quick, light dessert. It has a cream cheese frosting and is topped with a rainbow of whatever seasonal fruit you want to use. Finish it with a drizzle of white chocolate for a sweet treat that looks impressive but is easy to make!
Why This Fruit Tart with Phyllo Dough Works
Years ago, my friend Gina shared this easy phyllo fruit tart recipe with my readers, and it’s been one of my long-time favorites. I enjoy a light dessert with fresh fruit that isn’t too sweet. Plus, I love anything with white chocolate!
- Low-calorie crust: Phyllo dough is lighter than puff pastry and pie crust.
- Customizable: Make it year-round with whatever fruit is in season.
- Party-worthy: It’s simple to make, looks pretty, and is perfect for any summer brunch or potluck.
Ingredients You’ll Need
Here’s everything you’ll need to make this easy phyllo fruit tart recipe. See the recipe card below for the exact measurements.
- Melted Butter and Oil: Brush it onto the phyllo dough to add moisture and prevent cracking.
- Phyllo Dough is a thin pastry made primarily of water and flour, with little fat. It’s sometimes spelled “filo” and means “leaf” in Greek.
- Reduced-fat cream cheese: Let it sit at room temperature for at least 30 minutes to make it easier to whip.
- Powdered Sugar sweetens the frosting.
- Whipped Topping: You can use my homemade yogurt whipped cream, Cool Whip, or TruWhip, which is low in calories and has no HFCS.
- Fruit: Fresh or canned mandarin oranges (drain them first), peeled and sliced kiwi, and sliced strawberries
- White Baking Chocolate: Melt it and drizzle it on top. You can also use white chocolate chips.
How to Make Phyllo Fruit Tarts
Make sure the phyllo crust cools completely before adding the other components. If you don’t, it could get soggy! See the recipe card at the bottom for printable directions.
- Butter the phyllo: Melt the butter and mix it with oil. Brush it onto each piece of dough.
- Bake the phyllo at 400°F for 5 to 7 minutes. Let cool.
- Make the cream cheese frosting: Beat the room-temperature cream cheese using a stand mixer or an electric hand mixer. Once smooth, add the sugar and then gently fold in the whipped topping. Spread it over the phyllo dough.
- Assemble the tart: Place the sliced fruit on the crust and drizzle with melted white chocolate.
Variations
- Phyllo dough tip: To oil the phyllo faster, use a butter spray instead of brushing it on. I use this one with ghee and oil. Work quickly with the phyllo to prevent it from drying out.
- Crust options: Try my fruit pizza recipe with a sugar cookie crust.
- Citrus Fruit: Swapped canned mandarins with fresh mandarin or clementine slices.
- Fruit: Any type of fruit works on this phyllo dough tart. Try it with mixed berries, peaches, mango, figs, or pineapple.
- Make it lighter: Omit the cream cheese and powdered sugar, and just use the whipped topping as the “icing.” For homemade options, top it with yogurt whipped cream or whipped coconut cream.
- Chocolate: Substitute white chocolate with semi-sweet or dark chocolate.
- Make mini phyllo fruit tarts: Slice the unbaked phyllo into squares and press into a greased muffin tin.
Storage
- Make ahead: If serving this phyllo tart dessert at a party, you can bake the phyllo and make the frosting the day before. Wait to assemble the tart on the day of your event.
- Refrigerator: Leftovers will last up to 3 days in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
More Fruit Dessert Recipes You’ll Love
For more dessert ideas with fruit, plus these five delicious treats to satisfy your cravings!
- Red, White, and Blue Fruit Pizza
- Mixed Berry Tartlet with Dark Chocolate
- No-Bake Yogurt Pie with Date-Nut Crust
- Strawberry Crisp
- Easy Fruit Kabobs with Creamy Yogurt Dip
Phyllo Fruit Tart
This easy phyllo fruit tart is made with a flaky phyllo dough crust topped with cream cheese frosting, fresh fruit, and a white chocolate drizzle. It’s the perfect light spring or summer dessert.
Yield: servings
Serving Size: 1 /8th slice
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter, melted
- 1 tbsp oil, any neutral oil such as avocado
- 8 sheets phyllo dough, 14 x 9
- 8 ounces light cream cheese
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 cup whipped topping, such as TruWhip or my homemade yogurt whipped cream
- 1 11-oz can mandarin oranges, drained or 2 to 3 fresh, peeled
- 4 kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
- 1 ½ cups sliced strawberries
- 1 oz white baking chocolate, melted
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine butter and oil.
- Place one sheet of phyllo dough on a baking sheet. Brush with butter mixture. Repeat with remaining sheets.
- Bake at 400°F for 5-7 minutes, or until browned. Cool completely.
- Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar, beat well. Fold in whipped topping. Spread over cooled phyllo.
- Top with fruit.
- Melt chocolate in microwave in 30 second intervals and drizzle over fruit.
Last Step:
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You can use any variety of fresh fruit, try bananas, strawberries and dark chocolate.
Adapted from: Taste of Home’s “Healthy Cooking”
Nutrition
Serving: 1 /8th slice, Calories: 247 kcal, Carbohydrates: 31 g, Protein: 5 g, Fat: 12.5 g, Saturated Fat: 6.5 g, Cholesterol: 22 mg, Sodium: 207.5 mg, Fiber: 2.5 g, Sugar: 17 g
I’d never worked with phyllo before but it turned out fantastic! Everyone raved about it! Definitely a keeper!
The cream cheese topping and fresh fruit was awesome. I learned I am not a fan of Phyllo dough lol. Also I burned the chocolate, in the microwave twice even doing 10 second intervals. Will use a double boiler next time. Overall a great springtime dish.
Question – Do I butter each phyllo sheet at a time and then place them on top of each and then bake it? or do i butter each phyllo sheet and bake them individually and then stack them? Sorry – I am no whiz in the kitchen.
Yes, you would brush each sheet individually. An easier way to do this is with a butter spray (I have one that’s ghee) using real ingredients and it works great.
So I butter each sheet and cook all 8 of them together on top of each other? I’m so confused
You stack them and bake. 🙂
I just made this for a picnic tomorrow! OMG! Made 2 pans, so we could have one at home, too. My son & I tried it already! DELICIOUS!! Thanks 🙂
I made this desert tonight very good but next time I will do it in a muffin tin might be easier to eat.
thanks for your great website!!
Kim from Canada
Can you use pie crust instead?
Hi Gina,
Thanks so much for posting this wonderful summer recipe. We stumbled upon your site via Google and have linked to this page on our Twitter and Facebook wall. It's perfect for the first day of summer!
(Since you're passionate about healthy cooking, hopefully you know about our fillo and frozen foods: our doughs are free of trans-fats, saturated fats, cholesterol, and preservatives; are vegan (dairy-free), OU-kosher, and come in organic varieties, including whole-wheat and spelt. If you'd like to learn more, feel free visit us.)
Thanks again for the recipe!
Happy summer,
Sara
The Fillo Factory
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I normally do not like fat free cream cheese, and I accidentally bought the sugar-free cool whip (ew)… but it actually turned out SO GOOD. I substituted a granola pie crust since I never use phyllo and didn't want to buy a whole box. It tasted so great! The white chocolate made it.
This was amazing and everyone at work loved it! To make the calories less I took out the cream cheese and added fat free strawberry yogurt. I love this website. Thanks for taking the time to add such delicious recipes.
Sure, you can adjust it to your taste.
could you use leave the white cholocate out and maybe drizzle a little carmel.. Maybe just use an apple amd leave out the powered sugar
This looks light and refreshing!!
I love the idea of making individual tarts.
@Anna and Kris- I'm all about the berries!!
I have made this recipe twice this week and it's phenomenal! I have modified just a tad – I grated some nutmeg in the cream cheese/cool whip mix, and added blueberries for a pop (and b/c I freely admit to having a bit of a nutmeg & blueberries addiction!). Oh, and I use semi-sweet chocolate. Time to make another one though – my husband loves it a little too much. Thank you for your website, we hardly remember that we're doing WW with these recipes!
So glad I found your site, you have an awesome collection of recipes! Keep up the great work 🙂
Wow..looks fantastic, and Delicious.. unfortunately, i can´t try it.. im not a good cooking man…
Made this, but changed the oranges for fresh peaches. It ups the fiber and tasted fantastic! Thanks for the recipe Gina!
Thank you for the recipe! I "adapted" it last night for a get together- I'm on WW so I wanted to prepare something I knew I could stay on track with. I made individual tarts – cut the phyllo dough into squares. Spray mini-muffin tin with nonstick butter flavor spray. Press dough into tins & bake. Then filled with the cool whip mixture, fruit and white chocolate drizzle. They were BEAUTIFUL! Portion controlled and all my friends were very impressed. I didn't tell anyone it was a WW friendly dessert…. 🙂
I am also on WW….love the way you prepared this, total portion control. Gina's recipe makes 8 servings. Did you do the same, fill 8 cups or all 12 of the muffin tin? 12 would make them less points, and so does the spray! Probably down to 3 1/2 or 4 pts+ your way.
Wow. Truly amazing recipes and fabulous pictures to match. I will bookmark this site and work my way through them.
Thank you.
Kathi
This sounds wonderful. My family love the fruit pizza but it's very high in calories. I'll try this.
Ann
Less of Me
That looks delicious. I can't wait to make it.
Katie, the recipe only calls for 1 T of oil and 1 T of butter for the WHOLE recipe. That is pretty good actually!
Great! I have some phyllo dough. I just found your site and can't wait to try some of the recipes.
This looks deelish. Will have to try it. Your food pics are fantastic!
I'm not sure I would want to use Butter and Oil. Is this to just brown it? Anything else we could use for that to make it even healtier?
Wow! This looks awesome! Can't wait to try it out. Thanks!
This sounds like a perfect summer recipe! I love making fruit pizza with a sugar cookie crust but this is a healthy swap and phyllo dough is amazing anyway! Thanks for posting this one!
looks really good!
amazing!
simple and refreshing! love it!