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    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    Modified: Jan 23, 2025 · Published: May 17, 2017 by Sarah Menanix · This post may contain affiliate links

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    These tropical haupia tarts have a gluten-free buttery pine nut crust filled with a zesty line coconut cream custard and are topped with mint mangoes and a toasted pine nuts.

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    I sat down to write this post late last night - ready to gush all about these mint mango haupia tarts with pine nut crust. But then my toddler (!!) woke up crying and my brain completely shut off. It just stopped working.

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    We went to Golden Gate park for Mother's Day with some friends and their brand new itty bitty baby who had the teeniest tiniest newborn cry. Her wails hardly fazed me. In fact, I got her to curl up in my arms and fall asleep, while I also held a conversation. When it's my own baby's cry, though? It pierces. It shuts down the logical thinking parts of my brain and makes it impossible to do anything else but anxiously listen to her cry (and then maybe cry as well...guys, it's not rational, I know).

    I think this is why it's easier for someone else to soothe your baby. Your kid feels that anxiety and feeds on it. In contrast, my heart rate while holding baby Indy on Sunday was cool as a cucumber. The perfect rhythm for an afternoon nap.

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    So let's try this again. These tarts seem complicated, but they're really pretty simple! The haupia filling is a Hawaiian sweet coconut cream custard that's infused with vanilla bean, thickened on the stove with a little corn starch, folded with lime zest, then chilled until firm and almost jello-like. I'm a texture person. This silky smooth texture is the tops.

    I got the idea for a pine nut crust when I was making an enormous list of all the things I wanted to make (read: eat) from Irvin's cookbook. Marbled, Swirled, and Layered. Back in my early cooking days (BB: Before Blog), pine nuts were one of the four foods my friends would joke described almost all of my recipes, yet it's a miracle that I never even thought to put them in dessert before - their buttery sweet texture was made for dessert! Pine nuts give the crust a sweet nutty hint that enhance the best part of any tart crust: butter, obviously.

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

    These haupia tarts are topped with mangoes tossed with mint and a few toasted pine nuts. Each bite is all at once creamy, buttery, refreshing, and tropical. I brought a few to a cocktail ladies night. Then I ate the last one for breakfast this morning as a prize for getting through the night with a restless toddler and I feel pretty great about that.

    Recipe

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Gluten-Free Pine Nut Crust

    Mint Mango Haupia Tarts with Pine Nut Crust

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    Ingredients

    Pine Nut Crust
    • ⅔ cup (90 g) pine nuts
    • ½ cup + 2 tablespoons (74 g) gluten-free oat flour
    • ¼ cup (32 g) sweet rice flour, also called mochiko, different from "white rice flour" or "brown rice flour"
    • 2 tablespoons (16 g) Bob's Red Mill tapioca flour
    • ¼ cup (36 g) powdered sugar
    • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
    • 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into ¼-inch cubes
    • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
    Haupia with Mint Mangos
    • 1⅔ cups full-fat canned coconut milk, 13.66-ounce can
    • 2 tablespoons canned coconut cream
    • ½ vanilla bean seeds and pod
    • ¼ cup granulated sugar
    • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
    • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
    • 2 tablespoons water
    • Zest of 1 lime, divided
    • 1 ripe mango
    • 10 mint leaves, finely chopped
    • 1 teaspoon honey or sugar
    • 2 tablespoon toasted pine nuts, for serving
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    INSTRUCTIONS

    Pine Nut Crust

    • Preheat the oven to 375°F.
    • Add the pine nuts, sweet rice flour, oat flour, tapioca starch, powdered sugar, and salt to the bowl of a food processor and pulse until the pine nuts are finely ground.
    • Add the butter and vanilla and pulse until the dough begins to form clumps and/or clumps together when pressed with your finger tips.
    • Divide the crust between and press the crust into four 4-inch tartlet pans or one 9 inch tart pan, starting with the edges and then pressing the bottom down.
    • Prick the bottoms all over with a fork and freeze for 10 minutes (or chill in the fridge for 30).
    • Bake the tartlets on a baking sheet for 18-22 minutes or until it just begins to turn light golden. Remove from oven and let cool.

    Haupia with Mint Mangos

    • Meanwhile, prepare the haupia pudding. Combine the coconut milk, coconut cream, and vanilla bean seeds and pod in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir until just steamy, but not yet boiling, about 4-5 minutes. Remove from heat and cover. Let steep for 15-20 minutes.
    • Remove the vanilla bean pods, scraping them out into the coconut milk one more time.
    • Stir in the sugar and salt to the coconut milk, place over medium heat and cook, whisking slowly, until the sugar dissolves and the milk begins to boil, about 3 minutes.
    • In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarch and water to create a slurry. Slowly pour the slurry into the pot and cook, whisking, until the pudding thickens to the consistency of runny yogurt, about 3-4 minutes.
    • Fold in half of the lime zest and pour the pudding into four baked tart shells and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before removing from tart pans and topping with mint mangos.
    • While the haupia chills, peel and cut the mango into ½-inch cubes. Toss the mango with the mint and a teaspoon of honey or sugar and chill until ready to serve.
    • To serve, sprinkle remaining lime zest over the tarts and top each tart with a spoonful of mint mangos and few toasted pine nuts.

    Notes

    *I grind my own gluten-free oat flour by mixing gluten-free oats in a high powered blender until fine

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    1. cakespy -

      June 14, 2017 at 3:57 am

      That teeny tiny slice!! So cuuuuute! I Love pine nuts and this looks like a great use of them!

      Reply
    2. Traci | Vanilla And Bean -

      June 02, 2017 at 6:45 am

      Coconutty goodness, with that mango... Sarah! I'm total heart eyes for this! I've never made a pine nut crust, but the flavor pairing is perfect. I'm curious what cocktail you paired with this?? Do tell! :D

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      • Sarah Menanix -

        June 06, 2017 at 9:36 pm

        Thanks Traci!! I think I want to make ONLY pine nut crusts from here on out. Maybe. Alanna made us some raspberry hibiscus margaritas to pair with it :)

        Reply
    3. Shikha @ Shikha la mode -

      May 25, 2017 at 8:06 pm

      Reminds me of the malasadas in Hawaii, but in tart form!

      Reply
    4. Todd Wagner | HonestlyYUM -

      May 24, 2017 at 9:33 pm

      Audrey's making this fore me :) :)

      Thanks for making me food I can eat!! You're the best.

      Reply
    5. Karen @ The Food Charlatan -

      May 22, 2017 at 3:52 pm

      It's so true! Other babies crying isn't so bad. I can't believe how delicious these look. Pine nuts ftw!!

      Reply
    6. Sheri Nix -

      May 22, 2017 at 12:11 pm

      They're so pretty!! I love mint!!

      Reply
    7. Sat -

      May 21, 2017 at 4:59 am

      My hubby loves this! I will have to make this for him!

      Reply
    8. Carla -

      May 18, 2017 at 4:37 pm

      I love pine nuts. I love tarts. DO YOU SEE A THEME?

      Reply
    9. Allyson (Considering The Radish) -

      May 18, 2017 at 9:08 am

      I never thought of it either, but you're right- pine nuts are perfect for desserts. I've never heart of haupia tarts before, but these look downright divine.

      Reply

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