Help! I can’t think what to do with these pastry cases.

Fresh raspberries or frozen well drained. Double cream and sugar. 3 or 4 spoons of raspberry jam
Beat a few of the raspberries in a small bowl. Whip Double cream and sugar. Fold mushed raspberries into cream in swirls ie not completely mixed. Fill pastry cases with cream mix, level put in fridge to firm up. Put fresh or frozen raspberries on top. Warm jam and cool slightly then spoon over top as a glaze. Put in fridge until needed.

Lemon Meringue pie

Ivanhsndyhemback, that’s an idea. So many of the suggestions would involve baking the pastry cases a second time and I don’t think that will work. If it would there’d be no problem.

A custard tart? How about some fruit with a jelly and blancmange mixed together poured on top so it sets and can be cut easily.

Ooooo My mouth is watering reading these ideas 😀💋

I'm guessing that your event has already happened now, what did you cook?

teabagwoman

Got home today to find a pack of 4” ready baked pastry cases on my doorstep. My neighbour was going to use them to make lemon tarts for a Natter and Nosh we will both be attending but has thought better of it and passed them to me. Now our ‘do’ is very much a finger buffet so filling them with crème fraiche and berries won’t work and my mind is blank. Can anyone suggest a firm filling I can use so that the tarts can be cut into small pieces?

Lots of folk have given you advice, so I don't need to.
I'm not usually of smutty mind but gosh! Is this a wind-up? Are you really called natter & nosh 😅 & your really called Teabag woman. Can't make it up can you haha 😆

Bakewell tart?
Large mince pie, with crumble topping instead of pastry?

I knew I should have kept mine 😁
It's probably worth a fortune now

Maybe mine was a second edition.

Elegran

That book was published in 2008. Still available on amazon, and there are good used copies for as little as £3.29, free delivery.

I'm sure I bought it years before that, probably in the 1970s 🤔

That book was published in 2008. Still available on amazon, and there are good used copies for as little as £3.29, free delivery.

Just realised that I typed " and purinto the cases" While it is so nice that on eating it you may well be tempted to purr, I really meant you to pour the mixture into the cases

I have made this Delia Smith recipe (from her book, "How to cheat at cooking")

I had that wonderful book but think I gave it to a DC going off to university and never got it back.

I have made this Delia Smith recipe (from her book, "How to cheat at cooking") both in individual tartlets and in a single bigger case, and it is yummy either way.
www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/tarts-and-flans/chocolate-tartlets No cooking, just melt the ingredients together and purinto the cases.
The M&S Fairtrade truffle sauce in the recipe is now called just M&S chocolate truffle sauce, but they still have it. There is also a salted caramel sauce in Tesco in exactly the same size and shape of jar, which I think must come from the same manufacturer. I have mixed it with glace cherries and chopped nuts for a filling. Tesco used to sell the chocolate truffle sauce, but don't seem to have it at the moment.

Thank you for all the great suggestions. The savoury ones sound delicious but unfortunately they are sweet pastry cases. Grandmadinosaur I like the idea of chocolate ganache, I think that would be very popular. *Aldom I did think about Bakewell Tart but as the cases are already baked would they take a second time in the oven? I've never used ready prepared pastry cases before.

To be honest I'm not keen on pastry these days which is why I'm keen to use them up at the Natter and Nosh..

If savoury, try delicious cheddar and cherry tomato tarts, a favourite buffet item on the menu of a very chic catering company I once worked with.
Pack the pastry cases with grated mature cheddar then pour over a rich custard made with one or two eggs and around 250 ml of double cream - depending on size of pastry case - then cut 6 cherry tomatoes in half & evenly arrange them on top of the cheese mixture, cut side up. Sprinkle with a little fresh chopped thyme and bake for approx 30 mins in a medium oven until firm to the touch and golden. They can easily be cut into equal, non-floppy portions of deliciousness.
Or, still using the custard mix, pack in crumbled good stilton & sliced ripe pears topped with a scattering of chopped walnuts instead of the cheddar and tomatoes.

I was thinking savory as well. Here's a leek tart, I've made similar and they were a hit.
www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/leek-tart-recipe

That sounds nice and easy! 🙂

Grated stilton, 1 egg, a bit of pepper, and milk to make soft mixture- into cases, bake.

Quiches if plain, cool and cut into four if possible

Tarte au Citron? if sweet and -ditto-

Is the pastry sweet or savoury?

Why not make quiches, or custard tarts.

I think whatever you put in them, when cut up they might be a bit difficult for a finger buffet. More suited to keeping for desserts perhaps, they should have a reasonable shelf life.

How about easy Banoffee pie, using tinned dulce de leche or caramel condensed milk?