It’s Valentine’s Day – what better way to celebrate it than by preparing this sweet and delicious jam and almond tart for the one you love? Thanks, Mirna, one of our team members, for this lovely recipe! You can find more of her recipe here.

Jam and Almond Tart

Ingredients:

pie dough

100 g butter (room temperature)

1 egg yolk

50 g powdered sugar

200 g wheat flour

pure vanilla essence

filling

100 g butter (room temperature)

120 g sugar

2 eggs

30 g wheat flour

100 g almond flour (or grind almonds)

130 g red fruit jam

1 orange zest

garnish

sliced almonds

pie dough

Procedure:

Drop the wheat flour and the butter into a food processor, turn for 20 seconds, then add powdered sugar, the egg yolk and vanilla. Place down (use a rolling-pin) into a (9-inch) pie pan and press down along the bottom and all sides. Pierce the dough by using a fork, then set aside in the fridge.

Preheat the oven at 170° C.

Beat the butter with sugar and orange zest until whipped and carefully drop one egg, then the other one (do not stop beating while dropping the eggs). Go ahead, beat until smooth, then add the almond flour and the wheat flour. Whisk until whipped.

Take the pie dough from the fridge and spread the red fruit jam over the dough.

Then drop the almond filling. Sprinkle the sliced almonds.

Bake until golden; it takes 35/40 minutes.

Background music: “I wanna get lost with you”, by Stereophonics.