Let's start with a traditional Italian tart: the crostata alla marmellata (jam tart).
This is what we say the traditional homemade cake par excellence. The crostata (tart) is a tasty and above all easy to prepare recipe that you can stuff with your favorite jam (even better if homemade).
This tart is characterized for its typical lozenge decoration, but let your imagination run wild and invent new patterns, for example using cookie-molds or creating new forms to be distributed on the surface of the tart (as for the one that I baked).
Ingredients (for 8 servings)
300 gr flour
150 gr sugar
150 gr butter
2 eggs
a pinch of salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
lemon zest (1 lemon) or vanilla extract
250 gr jam ( I used my mother's raspberry jam, but you can choose the one that you prefer).
Method
1. Prepare the pasta frolla: in a big bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and lemon zest. Then in the center add the eggs and stir a bit with a fork. Add now the butter cut into pieces and quickly blend until the dough is compact, handling as little as possible to prevent the butter from melting too much. Form a ball and wrap it with cling film. Let rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
2. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Butter a 25 cm round pan and then dust it with flour (you can also cover the pan with parchment paper).
3. Roll the dough out to about 4 mm and, with the help of a the rolling pin, place it on the pan. Cut the extra pieces around the edge off and spread the jam on the dough. With the extra pieces of dough, re-roll them out. Now, if you want to create the traditional lozenge decoration, cut the dough into thins strips and lay them on the jam in a cross-hatch pattern. Otherwise use a cookie molds to make flowers, stars or the forms that you like the most.
4. Bake the crostata for about 40 minutes or until it begins to brown. Let it coll down and...enjoy!
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