Santa Claus Tart Recipe - Christmas holiday pies

Hello everyone, my name is Tasha and welcome to Heart of Tarts. Today on the show we will be making a Santa Claus Tart because it is Christmas time and Santa Claus is coming to town. And to bring him to town, he is bringing his little reindeer. Check out my friend Veggietorials. She made Reindeer out of Rice cakes. I love me some healthy food art and she has it. She made a Turkey out of Persimmons, she made this Reideer Rice Cake, who knows what she will make next. That is why you need to subscribe to her channel. Check her out. But, are going to move right along to make our Santa Claus because he will be here in no time and we do not want to be unprepared. We are going to start by making our tart crust. Preheat your oven to 350 degree F and to a food processor we are going to switch up our crust today. For those of you who wanted a chocolate tart crust, here we go. You are going to add in 1 1/2 cup old fashion oats along with 4 pitted dates, about 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 3 tablespoon natural cocoa powder. Blend that all together until it forms a flour and then we are going to add in 1/4 cup almond milk and 3 tablespoons coconut oil. Pulse that until it is just combined and then spread it around your nine inch tart pan. I love chocolate. Look how beautiful my skin looks today. It matches the tart. It is so excellent. Pop that in the oven for 10-15 minutes until it is brown and dry. And then we can move on to our filling. I am going to make a decadent chocolate pudding to make our Santa Claus dark and lovely. To the food processor again, you want to add in the flesh of one avocado, one ripe banana, two tablespoons cocoa powder, 1/4 cup almond milk, and I really switched it up. I used the Silk Seasonal Nog which is amazing but I can't have that much soy milk, so I can not tell you to use it, Use your almond milk if you can't have soy milk like I can't have soy milk. But I used it and it taste so good. Blend it, blend, blend it and then spread it over our tart crust. Now for our Santa Claus hat, we are going to be using pomegranate seeds, because they are in season. I am not an expert at getting the seeds out, but I used the water method. You can look it up here on YouTube if you need assistance. But it is really not that difficult. Sprinkle that over about the top 1/3 of your tart and then line off the border with some sliced bananas. So then you have his hat. And you want to create the ball of the hat with some more sliced banana. And, then it is perfect. I am going to create my Santa Claus eyes with some banana slices as well. That I have shaped into almond shapes. Like little squinty eyes. You know like because his cheeks are just so full of cheer that his eyes squint up so almondy and perfect. Next I am going to make his mustache out of sliced pear, but now that I look at it, it actually looks like a smile. So you can do whichever you want. Place on raisins for his eyes. For his nice curly afro-textured beard that is fully seasoned and grey, we are going to use pear flesh curls. I am just going to use a fruit peeler or a vegetable peeler to peel the flesh of the pear and I am going to border the tart with it so he has a nice Santa Claus beard. I love him. I fell in love with him as soon as saw him and then I ate him all up, because he taste so delicious. Don't you just want to eat up Santa Claus? He has to be full of sugary goodness. He lives in the North Pole for goodness sake. I really love this. If you love it too, click thumbs up . If you want to see more Christmas tarts and Christmas tart toppers, subscribe. I have something really special planned you you do not want to miss it. Thank you so much for watching. Bye.