Sour cherry bars (a very easy tart recipe)
These sour cherry bars are a love for life! Crispy shortbread pastry, pleasant lemon notes, and rich sour cherry jam filling.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup + 2 Tbsp (200 g) butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- grated zest of 1 lemon (optional)
- 16 Tbsp (400 g) thick cherry jam
Instructions
- Melt the butter, add sugar immediately and mix well. Allow cooling slightly.
- Then add 2 eggs and grated zest to the butter and mix again.
- Add flour, baking powder and knead a soft dough
- Put 1/3 of the dough in the freezer (we’ll need it later to put on top of the tart)
- Place the remaining 2/3 of the dough in a baking dish (you can roll it or just press with your fingers so that the dough fills the entire baking dish and its sides)
- Spread the jam over the top
- Now take the pastry from the freezer and grate it over the top of the jam. Use a thick grater.
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C (350F) and bake the tart for 30-40 minutes until golden brown. Wait until it cools down, cut into bars or squares.
Notes
If you are a happy digital kitchen scale owner, I highly recommend using it instead of cups and spoons. Especially when it comes to baking recipes. A scale gives you far more accurate results than volume measurements (everyone scoops ingredients differently). Trust me, using a kitchen scale to measure ingredients will take your baking to a new level.