Instructions

• First of all, prepare the shortcrust pastry:

  There is no need for a specific shortcrust pastry, you can use whichever recipe you like. If you need a suggestion, you can consult my shortcrust pastry collection where you can find all the pastries I’ve published so far.

  If you’re unsure and don’t know which one to choose, I’ll leave my two most classic pastries here, which are undoubtedly the most versatile and go well with jams of any flavor:

  – the my classic shortcrust pastry (an evergreen recipe)

  – the cream shortcrust pastry (that doesn’t crumble and is very easy to work with).

• After dividing the shortcrust pastry into two halves and rolling out the base on the pan (buttered and floured or lined with parchment paper), prepare some thin rolls of pastry.

  Use the rolls, more or less long depending on how they turn out, to create a fantasy design, a geometric grid, a division into sectors, basically a more or less chaotic creation, whatever your artistic streak decides 💪

  Pour your preferred jam into each sector.

  Here are two tarts before baking. In the first, I used blueberry jam and lemon jam. In the second, orange jam, pumpkin and apple jam, jam of… oops I can’t remember! (perhaps cranberry?), and finally in the smallest sector, bergamot jam.

  

• Like all tarts, these bi-tri-quadri-colored ones can also be decorated with chopped almonds, walnuts, or hazelnuts. The nuts add that extra touch to tarts that we like.

  

• However, I haven’t always photographed these tarts decorated my way. I couldn’t even find the photos of the one made for my son’s birthday (who knows if I forgot to take them or if they just disappeared!). I found this one dark photo, which luckily I had shared on the Facebook page, and which for reasons I really don’t understand seems to be the only existing photo of that birthday, which we celebrated at a pub.

  Well, the decoration turned out well (of course, having to bring my quirky two-tone tart to a public place I had to make it presentable 😅), I even covered the entire border with round cookies, it was a nice decoration. But the only photo I can show you at the moment is this one:

  

• In return, I found this one. A quick photo, but I’m happy to show it to you:

  

• Naturally, the baking of this two-tone tart is identical to that of a classic jam tart (350°F for about 20 minutes).

  I’ll leave the links to a couple of my tarts that you can refer to:

  – jam tart

  – heart tart with chopped nuts

• Note on jams: remember that not all jams perform the same in baking, some (usually those of slightly lower quality) become more or less liquid with heat, so if you’re using jams you haven’t tested before, be careful not to overfill each section and possibly create ‘division lines’ that are not too low.

• As promised, I’m adding a new version of the two-tone tart my way. 😊

  This time no abstract decorations, but rather a naive drawing, a drawing that deliberately recalls the ones I made as a child: the little house with flowers, the sun and clouds in the sky, that’s exactly how I drew it. With the only difference being that I couldn’t add the open shutters to the windows! 😃

  Try to copy it, it’s very simple to make!

  Give it a try too!

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• Certainly not a design decoration 😅 that wasn’t meant to be published, but then thinking again… why not? 😃

  Let’s consider it an idea, a starting point for other amazing decorations!