Homemade Little Jam Tarts

Homemade Little Jam Tarts

from sugarlovespices.com
Dessert
35 min
12 servings

Homemade Little Jam Tarts are dainty little treats made of a sweet pastry dough filled with jam and finished with a lattice top. Perfect at breakfast, snack, in a lunch box, on a dessert table, for outdoor gatherings. You name it. Crumbly, light, delicious, and super cute.

Ingredients

  • 250 gflour 00 or pastry flour
  • 1 ½ tspbaking powder
  • 100 gunsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 100 gcane sugar or granulated sugar
  • 1 largeegg
  • the zest of 1 small lemon
  • a few drops of milk or water if the dough seems too dry

Directions

For the sweet pastry dough:

  1. 1

    In a large bowl, or in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the flour with the soft butter, until you get a pebbly consistency.

  2. 2

    Then add the sugar and, continuing to mix, add the lemon zest.

  3. 3

    After, add the sifted baking powder and, finally, the whole egg. Mix everything until the dough almost comes together. If the dough seems too dry, add a drop of milk or water.

  4. 4

    Pour the raggedy dough onto a work surface and gently shape it into a ball, then flatten it. This dough does not need to rest in the fridge.

Assemble and bake:

  1. 1

    Roll out the pastry dough on a lightly floured surface to about 3-4 mm. Stamp out 12 x 6.5 cm (2.5") circles using a cookie cutter to cut the pastry circles out.

  2. 2

    Butter mini tart tins (mine were 5 cm/2"). Gently press each of the pastry circles into the pans.

  3. 3

    Prick with a fork and spoon 1-2 tsp jam into each (I used strawberry jam and homemade kumquat marmalade).

  4. 4

    Roll out the leftover pastry and make little ropes for a lattice top, or stampout shapes with a cookie cutter to decorate the top of the tarts. Note: you will have leftover dough, keep rolling and making more little tarts, or wrap in plastic and freeze for later use (that's what I did).

  5. 5

    Bake at 340°F/170°C convection for about 15 minutes, or until the pastry is golden. If using regular oven, bake at 350°F/180°C.

  6. 6

    Allow the little jam tarts to cool for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely, then unmold.