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Jam Tarts

Easy to make jam tarts, delicious with a generous dusting of icing sugar

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook time

12-15 minutes adjust for fan assisted ovens

Servings

6 Portions

Recipe for Jam Tarts

Ingredients

For the pastry:

12 teaspoons strawberry jam (or experiment with different jams)
28g sugar
255g plain flour
140g hard margarine or butter
6 tbsp cold water
a dusting of icing sugar

Preparation Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Sieve plain flour into a mixing bowl and then add margarine or butter. Rub in the margarine/ butter until it resembles breadcrumbs.
Add water tablespoon by tablespoon until you have a mix which represents a moist dough .
Grease a baking tray (or use a silicone baking mat in place of greasing as shown in image).
Roll out your pastry until it is approximately 1 cm thick and use heart shaped cookie cutters to make hearts approximately 8 cms in height. (Make border to support by using two cutters 8 cm and 6 cm used together recommended)
Put teaspoons of jam into each heart and add then use 1.5 cm heart cookie cutter to create heart to sit in centre of jam mix.
Bake until pastry is golden brown.
Place tarts on cooling rack and when cool dust with icing sugar.

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