Hungarian Jam Tarts

We grew up enjoying these jam tarts.

My mom would fill her old fashioned biscuit tin with her jam tarts which would disappear in no time!

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Fill your cookie jar with some of the delectable jammy squares

INGREDIENTS

500g butter

5 1/2 Cups Flour (five and a half cups)

1 Cup sugar

6 Tsp baking powder

1 Tsp Salt

2 Tsp Vanilla essence

6 Eggs

Jam of your choice – it has to be All Gold smooth apricot jam – mom used nothing else!

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Method

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, one at a time stirring well between each addition.

Add vanilla essence and mix everything together.

Sift dry ingredients into creamed mixture and mix everything, I find using my hands work better.

Take a 1/4 (quarter) of the dough and put it in a freezer for 30 minutes.

Press the rest of the dough into a Swiss roll baking tray. Spread over the apricot jam.

Now grate the dough from the freezer over the apricot jam.

Bake in a

Preheated oven: 180C

For 20 to 25 minutes until its golden brown

Cut into squares.

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Note; this makes a large tart. You can divide the ingredients to make a smaller tart.