Berry jam shortbread tart is a mixture of shortbread crust, jam, and a shortbread crumble topping and makes the most delicious shortbread dessert. This berry jam tart is super easy to make and perfect for special occasions or just when you want something sweet.
This shortbread tart is one of my all-time favorite desserts and I do not say this lightly. All of these desserts are my tried and true entertaining recipes and everyone always loves them.
I have made this shortbread tart in cookie form, bar form, and tart pan form, and it all comes out amazing.
This berry shortbread tart is made with a shortbread crust on the top and bottom and berry jam (or preserves) in the middle. It is so simple!
Ingredients
The ingredients for this shortbread tart are very simple and you probably already have these items on hand.
- Butter: This is for the shortbread dough. I like to use unsalted butter for this recipe.
- All Purpose Flour: This is the base of the shortbread.
- Brown Sugar: Brown sugar adds a deep sweet flavor to the tart.
- White sugar: This sweetens the shortbread.
- Berry jam or preserves: This jam is the center of the tart and you can use any berry jam that you have on hand.
- Kosher salt: This salt wakes up all of the flavors in the tart.
How to make berry jam shortbread tart
Making shortbread is so easy. If you have tried my salted shortbread or cardamom shortbread, it is the same process. Here is what you need to do:
- Make the shortbread crust: Combine Butter and Sugars together for the shortbread crust and crumble topping: You want to cream the butter and sugar together for the shortbread crust.
- Divide the shortbread crust: Now your dough is ready and you can go ahead and move on to divide the dough in half inside your bowl. You will use half of your dough immediately for your crust.
- Press dough into pan: Now that your shortbread dough is made, you are almost done with making this dessert! The next step is pressing the dough into your pan and baking the crust.
- Add berry jam: Add the jam all the way around your crust, just like a pizza.
- Add Shortbread crumble: The last step before you are on your way to eating this delicious shortbread tart, adding that shortbread crumble on top of the berry jam.
- Bake: You will bake it for about 20 minutes at 325 degrees or until you start to see the crust turn light brown all over. This step helps the crust set up and get crisp before we start to add those preserves. It prevents a mushy crust!
As you can see above, the crust is a beautiful light golden brown and now it will be ready for those preserves and crumble topping after it cools for a few minutes.
Variations for this recipe
You can use any berry preserves you can find in your store. I like using my recipe for mixed berry jam when I make this.
- You can use nectarine preserves .
- Some more ideas that would be great are raspberry preserves for a raspberry shortbread tart, and strawberry preserves for a strawberry shortbread tart.
Storing
This shortbread tart stores really well covered on the counter for up to 3 days. You can also refrigerate the tart for up to one week in the fridge.
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Equipment
- - 11 inch tart pan or round pan
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups unsalted butter at room temperature
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 10 oz jar of berry jam or preserves
- ½ cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- ½ cup granulated white sugar
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.
- Spray or butter tart pan well so your shortbread comes out easy after baking. See above for some alternative pans you can use if you do not have a tart pan.
- If you are using a tart pan, place the tart pan on top of another pan so butter doesn't drip out on to your oven when baking.
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, combine the butter, sugar (brown and white) and beat until smooth, about 2 minutes.1 ½ cups unsalted butter, ½ cup light brown sugar, ½ cup granulated white sugar
- Next, add your vanilla and salt and mix that in.1 teaspoons vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Now, add flour into the butter mixture and mix on low-speed until the mixture starts to form a ball .3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- Divide your dough in half and wrap up one half and place in the refrigerator until later. Press the other half of the dough into the bottom of the prepared pan to form the bottom crust.
- Bake the crust until it is just beginning to turn light brown, around 20 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the oven and let cool for a few minutes.
- Place your preserves over on your shortbread crust and spread evenly.10 oz jar of berry jam or preserves
- Now, take your reserved half of the shortbread out of the refrigerator and crumble the dough over the preserves to make your crumbled topping, being careful to not have really large pieces.
- Return the pan to the oven and continue baking for another 30 minutes or so until the crisp turns golden in color. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
- Once cooled, your can slice up your tart (or bars if using a rectangular pan) and serve!
- Serve on its own or with ice cream.
- Enjoy!!
Nutrition
Nutrition Values are estimates only.
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