Zia's Jam Tart - Real Recipes from Mums

Lovely for afternoon tea with a cuppa .

Ingredients (makes 1 tart)

500 Grams Plain flour
250 grams Butter
200grams Sugar
3 eggs
1- 1 1/2 cups jam ( any flavor )

Method

Grease a 30 cm flan tin well with butter or cooking spray. Set oven to 180 degrees
Mix flour and sugar in a bowl, Work in butter with clean dry hands
Add eggs and ,again, mix in with hands. At this stage the eggs don't need to be mixed in 100 %. When a thick dough has been reached you are ready to use.
Break off a small handful of dough to be used for decoration, Place the rest on the prepared tray and push all over the base and sides evenly.
Spread the jam over the base .
Break off pieces of the reserved dough and roll out into thin sausage shapes. Place them on top of the jam to form a lattice effect
Bake for approx 30-40 minutes or until pastry is light golden

Notes

This pastry is the same i've used in my "festive fruit flan" recipe. Its a good way to use any left over pastry. I don't always do the lattice, sometimes i cut shapes out of the pastry and put those on top of the jam. Any flavor jam can be used, but i love any berry jam on this .

38 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 12 Apr 2023
    9:22 am
Seriously looks so very awesome.

- - mom366598 said
  - 21 May 2019
    8:03 pm
These look super easy. Will be giving them a go (perhaps with a little less sugar though!)

- - mom19782016 said
  - 21 May 2019
    12:18 pm
This looks better than the ones you get in the supermarket!

- - Ellen said
  - 20 May 2019
    7:54 am
Even more easy when you simply use puff pastry.
- LuckyMum replied
  
  23 May 2019 , 4:33 am
  Yes so much easier….but a totally different recipe …. chalk and cheese
- - tessie said
  - 19 May 2019
    12:50 pm
Love this recipe and it’s so simple.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 18 May 2019
    11:02 am
That’s a LOT of sugar. Sounds a bit too sweet for me.

- - mom101628 said
  - 17 May 2019
    10:39 pm
Saw this or similar on MasterChef the other day – wouldn’t be something I would make as too sweet for a diabetic, but it looked good. Thanks for sharing.

- - ella12 said
  - 29 Apr 2019
    12:18 pm
I will pass, too much butter and sugar.
- LuckyMum replied
  
  17 May 2019 , 9:03 pm
  Each to their own.
  It’s a treat. Life is about balance
  - ella12 replied
    
    20 May 2019 , 11:51 am
    
    True.
- - mom19782016 said
  - 11 Apr 2019
    2:02 pm
Oh this looks dreamily delish!

- - rovermum said
  - 11 Apr 2019
    9:12 am
This looks awesome and something I’d love to make as a morning or afternoon tea treat.

- - Ellen said
  - 11 Apr 2019
    7:47 am
I would make this without sugar in the dough.

- - mom81879 said
  - 24 Mar 2019
    6:44 pm
I does look good. A quick, simple, no fuss recipe.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 23 Mar 2019
    5:43 pm
An easy way to use the jams that no body is eating any more. The ones sitting in the pantry from the excess berries.

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 06 Mar 2019
    2:12 pm
What a lovely desert I can’t believe how quick and simple it is

- - mom62624 said
  - 21 Feb 2019
    8:51 am
Lovely, simple, creative and beautiful to share.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    10:31 am
I love that it’s so versitile and it looks so very appealing thanks!

- - mom297125 said
  - 02 Feb 2019
    9:15 pm
Looks so pretty. To pretty that i wouldnt want to eat it

- - cherz said
  - 27 Jan 2019
    2:08 pm
ummm yummm is it afternoon tea time yet. Looks sooo delicious.

- - taynik46 said
  - 24 Jan 2019
    2:07 pm
this looks really pretty, and would be lovely for a gathering of friends at afternoon tea – thank you for sharing

- - rachel1970 said
  - 21 Jan 2019
    9:29 pm
yum, that looks pretty amazing.