041Budget guru NAKITA DE SOUZA – PLAATJIES shares her take on a Hungarian tart or a “Jam Tart” as most of us grew up calling it.
In the mood for something sweet,or you’re expecting visitors but you don’t have a ton of ingredients. Then look no further here is an oldie but goldie recipe to keep in your saved folder for sure.
This is treat I remember growing up with. My mother would make these ever so often…the warm jam in the oven having the whole house smell sweetly delicious. She did however make a date variant that wasn’t my favourite thing….
We simply just called them Jam tart but I’m sure they have an actual name.
Hope you try out this recipe and be prepared to have it be gone in 60 seconds lol
Ingredients
For the pastry
250g Butter
1 cup of sugar
1 egg
5ml vanilla (and extra for good measure)
2½ cups of cake flour
5ml baking powder
5ml salt
1/3 cup of desiccated coconut (you can add more depending on taste)
For the filling
Apricot jam (room temperature)
Optional coconut
Method
Cream your butter, sugar, egg and vanilla. Sift in your flour, baking powder and salt into creamed butter and mix well. Add in your
desiccated coconut. Use your hands to incorporate all your ingredients to form a well-combined dough. In cling wrap, wrap up 1/3 of the dough and place it in the freezer. Wrap up the rest of the dough and place this in the fridge. For about an hour or until the freezer dough has hardened.
Next to a creased baking sheet spread out your dough, as evenly as you can, not too thin but also not too thick. Now you spread a layer of jam on your dough. Here you can add additional desiccated coconut if you would like. With a cheese crater, you crate your freezer dough over the jam, trying to do it as fast as possible so your dough doesn’t get too soft. Cover all your jam spots as well as you can and pop it into the preheated oven on 180c for 20-25 minutes.
Remove once baked and immediately cut. Let it completely cool and run your knife
through it again. Dust with icing sugar and remove from pan. Now for the best part …plate it up and enjoy it with a warm cup of tea or coffee.
Check out the video tutorial over on my socials…And don’t forget to sprinkle some kindness
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