Sneha's Recipe: Tart

These Homemade Pop Tarts are filled with Homemade Indian Blackberry Chia Jam and are the perfect treat! The jam in it is delicious, but you can substitute it for any jam you would like! You will love this recipe, because the buttery flaky pie crust with my favorite Indian Blackberry Chia Jam is so amazing!
Ingredients
For The Crust
310 Grams All Purpose Flour
50 Grams Icing Sugar
200 Grams Cold Salted Butter- cubed
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 Tablespoon Ice Cold Water - or as required
Other Ingredients
Homemade Indian Blackberry(Jamun) Chia Jam
Sprinkles as required

For The Glaze
1/3 Cup Icing Sugar - sieved
1 +- Teaspoon Water
Method
To Make The Crust

Add the flour, salt, and sugar to a food processor and pulse and few times to blend everything together.
Add in the cubed cold butter and pulse until the butter is like pea sized. Add the water and mix just enough so it lightly comes together. It will still look loose but will stick together when you squeeze a chunk of it in your fist.
Take the dough out onto a well-floured surface and lightly knead until it forms a disk. Divide it into two equal disks, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for at least 1 hour or you can keep this in refrigerator for 5 days or freeze it up to three months.
To Assemble The Pop Tarts
Roll out the doughs into about a 10 x 14 sheets.

Using a rectangle cookie cutter, or a rectangle stencil, cut out 6 pieces out of each layer, 12 rectangles in total.

Place half of the pieces on a lined baking sheet and add 1 tablespoon of the jam.

Dip your finger in a bit of water and run it around the outline of the rectangle (this will help it stick to top layer).
Place the other piece on top and seal using a fork to push down around the border. Poke a few holes in the dough for the steam to release.

Repeat with the remaining rectangles. Refrigerate this for at least 30 minutes . I placed the tray in the freezer 15 minutes. Preheat the oven at 180°C , bake the pop tarts for about 18 to 20 minutes or until the edges are light brown. Let them cool till the come to room temperature.

To Make The Glaze

Take a bowl add the sieved icing sugar add a teaspoon of water at a time and make it into a thick pouring consistency glaze.
Pour a tablespoon of glaze on each pop tart and place the sprinkles on top.

Enjoy them with your favorite cup of coffee or tea.
My Notes

Use cold or frozen butter. Cold butter helps create air pockets in the dough, which helps creates flakey layers. Room temp butter will thoroughly blend into the dough and not create those layers.
Labels: Pie, Homemade, Jam, Baked, International Cuisine, Sunday Funday, Tart

For Sunday we sharing "Pop Tarts Recipes"

Ghostly Pop Tarts by A Day in the Life on the Farm
Homemade Flaky Pop Tarts With Indian Blackberry(Jamun) Chia Jam by Sneha's Recipe
Homemade Pepperoni Hot Pockets by Amy's Cooking Adventures
Giant Nutella Pop Tarts by Karen’s Kitchen Stories
POG Tarts by Culinary Cam
Sloppy Joe Pop Tarts by Our Good Life

Bora berries are a popular fruit from India. It is commonly found at road side carts.

As kids we use to buy this fruit to eat after school and enjoy it with salt. I go climbing the forest hills every day this fruit is widely available there, we collected these and made this tart for my friends.

Ingredients
For the Shortcrust
200 Grams All Purpose Flour
100 Grams Butter

A Pinch Salt

1 Tablespoon Water

For the Coconut Filling
1 Tablespoon Butter - softened
1/4 Cup Sugarcane Jaggery
1 Egg
1/2 Cup Coconut flour - Homemade
50 Grams All Purpose Flour
Pinch Cinnamon powder & Nutmeg powder
1 Tablespoon Milk
1/2 Cup Bora Berries - deseeded and chopped
Bora Berries for garnishing as required

Method

Mix all the ingredients to make the short crust pastry. Work the dough well out and smooth and let it stand for at least 1 hour in refrigerator.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator (if refrigerated longer than 1 hour, let stand at room temperature until workable). Unwrap and roll out between 2 lightly floured large sheets of parchment paper or plastic wrap to a round according to the size of the pan ( used a 6.1/4 inch tart pan). Transfer the dough to the tart pan. Ease the dough into the pan corners and press the dough against the fluted sides of the pan. If some sections of the edge are too thin, reinforce them by folding the excess dough back on itself. Run the rolling pin over the top of the tart pan to remove the excess dough. Prick the bottom and sides of the dough all over with a fork. Set the dough-lined tart pan on a large plate and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees . Set the dough-lined tart pan on a baking sheet, press a foil into the frozen tart shell and over the edge and fill with ceramic pie weights or beans. Bake for 15 minutes, rotating halfway through the baking time. Remove from the oven and carefully remove the foil and weights. Continue to bake until deep golden brown, 5 to 8 minutes longer. Set the baking sheet with the tart shell on a wire rack and cool to room temperature.

In the meanwhile let's prepare the filling.

In a bowl mix butter, jaggery till smooth. Add the Coconut flour, flour, eggs, milk and cinnamon and nutmeg powder. Mix it all well add the chopped bora berries and fold in well.

Once the tart shell is cooled completely then fill the coconut paste mixture and arrange the bora berries on top.

Bake the tart for about 35-40 minutes or until golden at 180 C. Do the poke test to see if it's done in the center (if anything sticks on the fork or tooth pick, it will need some more baking time).

Cool it and slice it

Enjoy!!

My Notes

I made my own Coconut flour, by drying the scraped coconut in the oven for 30 minutes a 100 C. Then ground the dried coconut to a fine flour. Store it in a airtight container.