Springy lemon blueberry tarts with a crispy gluten-free cereal crust, silky sweet-tart no bake lemon filling, and homemade berry jam swirl. These tartlets are a go-to spring/summer sweet treat – the swirls always impress, but the recipe is SO easy to make!

How To Make These Mini Berry Tarts

These tarts come together in three (easy!) parts: crumb crust, dairy-free lemon filling, saucy blueberry swirl.

Gluten-Free SunButter Cereal Crumb Crust

Forget graham crackers, THIS is the ultimate way to make an easy press-in crumb crust (and it’s a little healthier too!) With brown rice cereal as the crumb base, SunButter instead of butter butter, and the perfect salty-sweet golden result after a quick 12ish minutes in the oven. Let’s break down the ingredient list:

Toasted rice cereal. I like to use a brown rice variety, but regular ol’ rice krispies will work like a charm too. What you shouldn’t swap in is puffed rice cereal, the will result in a soft soggy sad crust mess.
Agave or maple syrup. Or honey if not vegan, whatever liquid sweetener you got.
Coconut oil. Or melted vegan butter will be fine too.
SunButter. And for a little extra texture and sunflower crunch, I went with Crunchy SunButter for this recipe. SunButter acts as the binder to hold our crumb crust together enough, but still allows for delicious crumble-ibility when fork hits crust.
Vanilla and salt.

Dreamy Dairy-Free Lemon Cream Filling

And just like that, the baking portion of the recipe is done and it’s all blending and no-baking from here. Next up, our TANGY and CREAMY lemon filling. You will need:

Raw cashews. Soaked overnight (or if you’re in a hurry 3 hours in boiling water works too), drained, and rinsed. This will blend up to be the creamiest lemon curd-ish texture, just trust me.
Coconut milk. We need a little extra liquid to get the cashews blending, so why not go with the milk that will give us maximum creaminess and help our tarts set up in the fridge too? Full fat coconut milk in a can is your best choice, if you opt for anything lighter you may have to freeze your tarts to get the filling sliceable and firm.
Agave or maple syrup. Again, whatever liquid sweetener your have/love.
Coconut oil. Just a little bit, again this is mostly to help them set just right.
Lemon juice. And now we get to the tangy flavor portion of the ingredient list, I did not go light on the citrusy flavor.
Lemon zest. More flavah baby!

Quick Blueberry Jam Swirl

Why use a jarred jam when you can whip up this simple sweet blueberry sauce in less than 10 minutes? There will be extra after swirling on top of the tarts, so save it for topping ice cream or yogurt or oats or…anything!

Frozen blueberries, a little sweetener, a dash of vanilla, and a spoonful of starch to thicken – that’s all you need. Combine everything in a small saucepan and cook/stir into a bubbling, beautiful, jammy purple sauce. I like to make this part first actually, and let it cool while prepping the rest. You can even make it the day before.

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