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Firstly place the flour, butter, sugar and
salt in a bowl. Rub the mixture in between your fingers till it resembles fine
breadcrumbs. Once the mixture resembles bread crumbs add a couple of drops of
water and mix in with your hands till the comes together and forms a dough. Wrap
the dough in cling film an place in the fridge to chilled for ten minutes.
Once chilled unwrap the dough and roll out
on a floured surface till around a millimetre think. Cut out
circles using a 8 cm cookie cutter and place them in grease
tray miniature cake tins or a muffin trays. Place in the
oven for ten minutes at 220c / 427f / gas mark 7 for tem
minutes till lightly brown and firm to touch. Take them out
the oven and turn the oven down to 110c / 225f gas mark 1/4.
While the oven is cooling spoon 1 tsp of jam into each
pastry base. Place back in the oven for ten to fifteen
minutes till the jam melts into the shape of pastry
base.
Allow to cool completely as jam will be
incredibly hot and mouth burning. This recipe makes 20 vegan
jam tarts. |
