Halloween black cherry jam tarts
- Published: 6 Oct 23
- Updated: 5 Sep 24
Nothing takes you back to childhood quicker than a homemade jam tart, but these gothic black cherry numbers have been given a ‘trick’ of prickly floral flavour thanks to pink peppercorns. Great for Halloween – just don’t eat them all before the trick or treaters start knocking.
Looking for Halloween desserts? Try our spooky Mississippi mud pie with blackberries.
Ingredients
- 175g plain flour
- 1 tbsp icing sugar
- 85g unsalted butter, chilled and cubed, plus a little extra to grease
- 1 medium free-range egg yolk
- 420g black cherry jam
- 1 tsp pink peppercorns
You’ll also need
- 12-hole cupcake tray
- 9cm fluted round cutter
Method
- Put the flour, icing sugar and butter in a blender with a pinch of salt and pulse until sandy. Add the egg yolk and pulse again in the blender until it starts to come together. If you don’t have a blender, stir together the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl, add the butter and rub it in with your fingertips until the mixture is sandy, then stir in the egg yolk. Tip it out, shape into a ball and flatten a little into a disc to make it easier to roll out. Wrap and put in the fridge to rest for at least 30 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 180°C fan/gas 6 and grease the cupcake tin with a little butter. Roll out the pastry to around 3-4mm thick, then use a 9cm fluted cutter to cut out 12 circles. You’ll probably need to ball up and re-roll the leftover pastry to create enough cases. Line the tray with the cases, prick the bases with a fork, then carefully spoon the jam into each one.
- Use a pestle and mortar to roughly crush the peppercorns, sprinkle them on top of the tarts, then bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes. Leave to cool completely before eating.
- Recipe from October 2023 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 198kcals
- Fat
- 6.6g (3.9g saturated)
- Protein
- 2g
- Carbohydrates
- 32g (22g sugars)
- Fibre
- 0.9g
- Salt
- 0g
delicious. tips
Easy swaps If you don’t have much time, miss out step one and use shop bought shortcrust pastry – it’s fine, at a pinch.
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