Egg tarts with puff pastry are an easy and elegant brunch option! Ready in 30-minutes, you’ll wow your guests when hosting the girls, Mother’s Day brunch, or Easter Brunch when you serve this delicious egg tart recipe.
I’m proud to partner with Taittinger to bring you this delicious brunch recipe to pair with their Prestige Rosé. Taittinger is one of the few remaining family owned and operated Champagne houses. They’re known for their high-quality production standards and sustainable practices.
I find brunch to be the perfect meal. You get everything you love about breakfast, with the addition of some extra special treats and good drinks. Brunches are often made for special occasions or as a way to spend time with friends… Everything I love included in one meal.
These puff pastry egg tarts are elegant and special (and easy to pull off!), making them a perfect option for an at-home brunch. Pairing these delicious egg tarts with the vibrant, fruity, and sophisticated Taittinger Prestige Rosé truly enhances the experience and takes your brunch party to a whole new level.
Puff pastry egg tarts would be great for Easter Brunch, Mother’s Day, or an intimate Baby Shower or Bridal Shower.
Wow your guests at the next brunch with these delicious puff pastry egg tarts!
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- Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Ingredients Needed
- Recipe Variations and Substitutions
- Step-By-Step Instructions For Egg Tarts
- Menu Tips for Hosting a Great Brunch
- Find This Sparkling Rosé Wine Near You
- Possible Dietary Restrictions?
- Expert Tips
- Helpful Equipment
- Recipe FAQs
- Love This Recipe? You May Also Enjoy
- Puff Pastry Egg Tarts
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Impressive breakfast tarts that are relatively easy to make! These egg tarts are beautiful and will impress your guests! This recipe is easy to moderate. The challenge of this bake is getting the eggs just right. Being gentle when cracking and placing your eggs into the wells is key.
Delicious, savory flavors. The eggs and buttery pastry are the main stars of this puff pastry egg tart recipe, accented by the coppa ham and parmesan.
Ready to eat in 30 minutes! It will take you approximately 30 minutes to prepare and bake your puff pastry egg tarts.
Ingredients Needed
- Frozen Puff Pastry Sheets – using frozen puff pastry makes your life easy while still getting to enjoy wonderfully flakey and buttery pastry.
- Medium Eggs – I’ve found that using a slightly smaller egg is the key to making these individual egg tarts a success! I wanted to make sure this was called out here, because if you’re like me, you likely have large eggs in your fridge for day-to-day use.
- Coppa Ham (aka Capocollo or Capicola) – using this dry-cured, thinly sliced meat adds a rich and delicious flavor to your egg tarts. Coppa ham has a wonderful balance of meat and fat with a subtly spicy flavor… a really lovely addition to this elegant breakfast tart.
- Parmesan Cheese – a sprinkle of shredded parmesan adds a pop of richness and savory flavor to our tarts.
- Salt & Pepper – used to season our meal.
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
Recipe Variations and Substitutions
- Substitute the coppa ham with a different meat. Don’t have coppa ham in a store near you? Depending on where you live, coppa ham may or may not be available in a store near you. Alternative options include prosciutto, deli ham, or even cooked bacon!
- Top with fresh herbs. Try adding a sprinkle of fresh chives, scallions, parsley, or whatever fresh herb you like with eggs after you pull them out of the oven! This adds a pop of freshness to your egg tarts.
- Add some veggies. You can also add some sun dried tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, spinach, or asparagus into your egg tarts if you’d like! Sautéed leeks are another great addition. Add a small amount along with the coppa ham before adding your egg into the well.
- Try another cheese. You know I love cheese! If the little sprinkle of parmesan isn’t doing it for you in this recipe, try using a more robust cheese. Havarti, gouda, fontina, thinly sliced brie, goat cheese… you have lots of great options!
Step-By-Step Instructions For Egg Tarts
Thaw frozen puff pastry per the package instructions.
Preheat oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Unfold and place a thawed sheet of puff pastry onto a lightly floured, flat surface. Lightly roll the puff pastry dough with a rolling pin to help remove the creases from being folded in the box.
Cut the sheet of puff pastry dough into four equal-sized squares, brush of any excess flour, and place each square onto the prepared baking sheet.
Place a ramekin in the center of each puff pastry square.
Crack an egg into a small dish, whisk it, and add an egg wash to the puff pastry that is exposed around the ramekins (do this by brushing the egg onto the puff pastry with a pastry brush).
Bake the puff pastry squares with the ramekins on them for 10 minutes, until very lightly browned and puffed up around the ramekins to create a well.
Take the baking sheet out of the oven and remove the ramekins from the puff pastry squares (note: if they stick, gently run a spoon around the edge of the ramekin to loosen it).
Add a slice of coppa ham and sprinkle of shredded parmesan cheese to each square. Then very carefully pour a cracked egg into each well. Top each egg with a pinch of salt and pepper.
Gently place the tray back into the oven and bake for another 10 minutes (or until the eggs are set to your liking).
Remove the egg tarts from the oven and serve immediately. Enjoy!
Menu Tips for Hosting a Great Brunch
With these delicious puff pastry egg tarts as your brunch’s main dish, adding in a few key elements to fill out your menu will ensure a great time is had by all!
- Include a fresh side-dish or two to pair with your savory main dish. Adding a green salad tossed in a light vinaigrette plus a fresh fruit salad is a great way to add something light and fresh to your meal.
- Add a sweet treat or two to balance out your savory main dish. Great options include muffins, tarts, scones, or donuts. These double chocolate zucchini muffins or these lemon blueberry donuts would be great for a spring or summer get together.
- If you have a snacky crowd, having a grazing board ready is a great option for when guests arrive! This charcuterie board would be perfect for a fun and fancy Rosé brunch gathering
- Have a variety of beverages for your guests to choose from, including alcoholic and non-alcoholic options:
- Have several cold bottles of Taittinger’s Rosé Champagne ready to greet your guests when they arrive. Using a variety of champagne, wine, and coupe glasses can elevate the experience for your guests too!
- Make sure to have hot coffee prepared and ready to serve. Have cream and sugar on hand for those who prefer adding these to their coffee.
- Have a variety of juices chilled and ready to serve. Orange juice, cranberry juice, and tomato juice are all brunch classics.
Find This Sparkling Rosé Wine Near You
Taittinger’s Prestige Rosé is an excellent drink to serve with your brunch. It’s light, fruity, and bubbly…what more could you ask for? Their champagnes consistently receive outstanding scores (90+) and are really the perfect addition to any celebration. You can find Taittinger’s critically acclaimed champagne in a store near you.
Possible Dietary Restrictions?
A few simple modifications can be made to make these puff pastry tarts vegetarian or gluten-free.
- To make this into a vegetarian puff pastry tart, simply leave out the coppa ham.
- To make this egg tart recipe gluten-free, purchase a gluten-free frozen puff pastry.
Expert Tips
Place your meat on the edge of your “well”! This will help ensure you have enough room for your egg, and also creates a lovely pop of color / visual interest on your egg tart.
Don’t have ramekins to create your wells? No problem! You can create your wells with another small oven safe vessel or create one by wrapping tin foil around a glass to create a circular shape and weigh it down with pie weights or dry beans.
Helpful Equipment
Recipe FAQs
Yes, frozen puff pastry needs to be thawed before baking. There will be directions on the package on how to thaw.
Many will recommend thawing the puff pastry in the fridge overnight as this allows the pastry to become pliable without softening too much.
Alternatively, you can thaw unwrapped frozen puff pastry at room temperature for approximately 40 minutes to allow to it become pliable and ready to use.
According to the Pepperidge Farm website, you can also thaw frozen puff pastry in the microwave. To do so, wrap pastry in paper towel and microwave on HIGH for 15 seconds, then turn it over and microwave for another 15 seconds. If it doesn’t unfold easily, microwave for another 5 seconds on each side.
Doing a blind-bake of your puff pastry base before adding a filling can help ensure the bottom of your puff pastry is baked. Baking the puff pastry before adding any fillings allows it to begin firming up, which helps to avoid liquid being absorbed into it.
Doing an egg wash on puff pastry helps the pastry to turn golden brown and shiny.
In some puff pastry recipes, an egg wash is also used to help things stick to the puff pastry. An egg wash can help multiple pieces of puff pastry stick together (like in a homemade pop tart recipe), or to help things stick to the puff pastry, like sprinkles of sugar.
While both cured meats that are made from pork, coppa ham is made from pork shoulder whereas prosciutto is made from the hind leg of the hog.
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Ingredients
- 1 Package Frozen Puff Pastry Sheets*
- 2-3 Tbps Flour for rolling
- 5 Medium Eggs
- 4 slices Coppa Ham* (aka Capocollo or Capicola)
- ¼ C Shredded Parmesan Cheese
- Pinch of Salt
- Pinch of Pepper
Instructions
- Thaw frozen puff pastry per the package instructions.
- Preheat oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Unfold and place one thawed sheet of puff pastry onto a lightly floured, flat surface. Lightly roll the puff pastry dough with a rolling pin to help remove the creases from being folded in the box.
- Cut the sheet of puff pastry dough into four equal-sized squares, brush of any excess flour, and place each square onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Place a ramekin in the center of each puff pastry square.
- Crack an egg into a small dish, whisk it, and add an egg wash to the puff pastry that is exposed around the ramekins (do this by brushing the egg onto the puff pastry with a pastry brush).
- Bake the puff pastry squares with the ramekins on them for 10 minutes, until very lightly browned and puffed up around the ramekins to create a well.
- Take the baking sheet out of the oven and remove the ramekins from the puff pastry squares (note: if they stick, gently run a spoon around the edge of the ramekin to loosen it).
- Add a slice of coppa ham and sprinkle of shredded parmesan cheese to each square. Then very carefully pour a cracked egg into each well. Top each egg with a pinch of salt and pepper.*
- Gently place the tray back into the oven and bake for another 10 minutes (or until the eggs are set to your liking).
- Remove the egg tarts from the oven and serve immediately. Enjoy!
M. says
These were a HUGE hit at a small brunch I hosted recently. Much easier to make than I thought they would be. I would definitely recommend them to others!
ourlovelanguageisfood says
I’m so glad these were enjoyed at your brunch! Thank you for making my recipe.
David says
Puff pastry is great. Eggs are great. Capicola is literally the best. Love it!
ourlovelanguageisfood says
🙌🙌🙌 yes!!! so glad you loved these too.