Breakfast tarts for a brunch

My mom had a few friends over for brunch last week and she wanted something special to serve them.  Not the usual bacon and eggs.  Nothing wrong with a good old fry-up from time to time, but sometimes an occasion just calls for a little bit of something else.

I shared a breakfast the other day with L.  We treated ourselves to a rare hour away from our offices and routine and went to a beautiful little restaurant all by ourselves.  He ordered a fruit platter filled with fresh, seasonal fruits and nothing else.  I kept on thinking that it looked so gorgeous and tasted so good, but it needed something else.  Maybe a slice or two of melba toast.  A cracker.  A tiny croissant.

So, when my mom mentioned wanting to serve fruit, the fruit platter came to mind.  But with what?  Maybe something resembling a bit of a tea treat, but not really.  And that is how these breakfast tarts happened.  I made some sweet pastry and then played around with a combination of fillings, before deciding on the yogurt and cream cheese mixture.  Plenty of options really.  

The plates came back to the kitchen with not a crumb in sight.  Success I suspect.