| Jam Tarts For Kids to Make | ||||||||
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| Easy Jam Tarts Recipe |
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They can be covered completely with pastry or latticed as in our picture above. |
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KEY POINTS
| Preparation Time: | 30 minutes | Cooking Time: | 25 minutes |
| How Difficult | Easy | Freeze? | No |
| Servings |
10 cakes |
Remember to supervise your children whilst they are
cooking.
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INGREDIENTS 55g / 2oz refined vegetable fat (e.g. Cookeen) 110g / 8oz plain flour Any flavour jam Cake baking tray and pastry cutter(see pics below). |
NOTE: You can use all cooking margarine (e.g. Stork) instead of Stork and Cookeen. Using both however gives a slightly lighter shortcrust pastry.
COOKING METHOD
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YOUR CHILD |
THE ADULT | |
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You will need to measure out the
ingredients or at least help your child to do so.
It's a bit easier if the Sork and Cookeen have been taken from the fridge half an hour ealier. |
| YOUR CHILD - Place the Cookeen, Stork and flour in a mixing bowl and mix them all together with your fingers until you have a mainly crumbly mixture. The odd lump or two will not spoil the pastry. Click the picture to enlarge it. |
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| YOUR CHILD -Add 3 tablespoons of water to the pastry mix and "cut" it in with a blunt knife. |
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| YOUR CHILD - With your hands form the pastry mix into a ball shape, This will take a minute or so. Add a tablespoons or so more water to the mix if it won't form a ball easily. Most of the bits from the side of the bowl can be cleaned off into the ball when the mixture is correct. |
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YOUR
CHILD -Wrap
the pastry mix in cling film and place in the fridge for thirty
minutes. Dust the work surface with flour, take the pastry mix from the fridge and flatten it slightly with your hands. |
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YOUR
CHILD - Use a
rolling pin to flatten out the pastry to approximately ¼cm (one
tenth inch)
Keep turning the pastry round every few rolls to stop it sticking to the work surface. |
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YOUR
CHILD - Use
the pastry cutter to cut out pastry circles which are just
larger than the holes in the baking tray. Firm each pastry
circle into a hole in the baking tray. Fill each pastry with a teaspoon of jam. |
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| YOUR CHILD - Cut some strips from the remaining pastry and lay them on the tarts as shown in the picture on the right. |
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Eat up
these tarts very fast
you can be sure they won't last!
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