Summer Journal #9 WHERE HAVE I BEEN and Jam Tarts

Long time, no see you guys! And I have to say I have missed you all tremendously. I've been itching to blog for days now, but I was quite ill, so unfortunately that wasn't possible. I am really sorry though, so I will fill you in about what happened these pat few days. To be honest, even if I did blog, you would have been bored to death, because practically all I did was lay in bed feeling sorry for myself, and take ill SnapChat selfies. However, I'm back in the game now, the holidays are in full swing and today I actually changed out of by black jogging bottoms (Ok, well I'm wearing grey ones today, but still). I got busy in the kitchen and made myself a yummy snack of Jam Tarts!

Mmmn doesn't this just look fabulous!

My Jam Tarts tasted amazing (I say tasted because they are all gone!). They were super easy to make and I managed to conjure up these beauties in less than half an hour.

I did cheat a little bit in that I used frozen short crust pastry, which I defrosted in less than ten minutes using the defrost function on my microwave. 

I then rolled out the pastry with a little flour before cutting out circles using a scalloped biscuit cutter. These pastry circles were then placed in a bun tin that was lightly greased with butter, and blindly baked for ten minuted on a temperature of 180 degrees C.

After ten minutes I took out the pastries and spooned a nice healthy dollop of jam in the centres. I used a variation of two different jams : some Hartley's 'bitless' jam, and then some fresh traditional strawberry jam from a nice farm shop. 

The heat was turned up on the oven a bit to 200 degrees C and then the tartlets were baked for a further 7 minutes. 

Yay! 

They're done! 

I left them to cool a little before eating because that jam was sooo hot! But once they are a little colder they taste absolutely fantastic!

The final three. Look at those crumbs!

Close up of the lovely nutririous jam

I hope you enjoyed this post and do let me know if you want to see more baking posts.

See you soon! 

Lots of Love

Eva