Raspberry Jam Tarts

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I realised last year that while I bake often, I've never actually baked jam tarts before, so when I came across this recipe, I decided to give it a try.

Let's get baking!

Ingredients:

250g plain flour, extra for dusting

125g butter

1 medium egg

100g raspberry jam

Put the flour, butter and a pinch of salt into a bowl and rub with your fingertips until it looks and feels like fresh breadcrumbs.

Next stir in the egg with a cutlery knife. Add 1 tbsp of cold water, then start to bring the dough together in one lump with your hands. Add 1 more tbsp of water if it's not coming together, try not to knead it too much.

Wrap the dough in clingfilm and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas Mark 6.

Butter a 12-hole tart/muffin tin.

Dust your work surface with flour. Roll out your dough so it's about the thickness of a £1 coin, then using a straight or fluted round cutter, cut out 12 circles, big enough for the holes in the tin.

Dollop 1-2 tsp of raspberry jam into each of the pastry cases. You can also cut out little pastry shapes to place on top.

Bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes or until golden and the filling starts to bubble a little.

Leave them to cool in the tin for a few minutes.

Then carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

These jam tarts were really easy and simple to make, the original recipe has the optional ingredient of a vanilla pod, which I kept out, but I think I'd add it the next time I bake them as it left the pastry tasting a little bland. I think I'd cut my pastry shapes a little thinner too next time as I think they were a little too thick against the base.

Other than the above, they did in fact taste delicious, I'd happily bake them again, rather than buying them in.

If you would like to follow the original recipe, then head over to the Easy Jam Tarts recipe page over on the BBC Good Food website.

See you soon!

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