Shortcrust pastry pie with jam is distinguished by its exquisite taste. A shortbread base for pies is prepared quickly, does not require a large number of ingredients and allows you to bake dishes with various fillings.

The classic recipe for shortcrust pastry with jam

To prepare high-quality pastries based on shortcrust pastry, you need to choose the right base products and follow certain rules. Many parameters should be taken into account: from temperature conditions to the use of special additives. If you do everything according to the rules, then you are guaranteed to get a delicious, crumbly and melting product in your mouth, with a golden crust.

Basic components of shortcrust pastry

The dough is prepared from a standard set of products:

• Butter with a mass fraction of fat from 72 to 82.5%.
• Sour cream with a fat content of 15 to 20%.
• Sugar (vanillin can be added).
• Freshly squeezed lemon juice.
• Wheat flour of the highest or first grade.
• Table salt.

This composition of ingredients is suitable for making cookies.

The base for baking closed and grated pies must be supplemented with the following ingredients:

• chicken egg;
• loosening agent;
• margarine (instead of butter).

Baking algorithm

When concocting shortbread dough, it is important to adhere to a certain sequence of actions:

1. Mixing flour and butter mass (you can take both butter and margarine).
2. Cooling the oil mixture.
3. Add granulated sugar to the chilled butter base, beat the mixture.
4. Formation of the finished mass (adding pre-beaten chicken eggs, vanillin, flour, sour cream, lemon juice, table salt and baking powder), stirring the mixture until elastic.
5. Putting the finished dough in the refrigerator for a period of 0.5 to 1 hour (previously, the dishes with the dough must be wrapped with cling film).

Only after all the above manipulations can you start forming the cake. To do this, put the dough in a special container with sides, fill it with filling if necessary.

Baking jam pie

Shortbread with sweet fillings has a very harmonious taste. To get a closed pie, the dough is placed in a container, then a layer of berry or fruit jam is laid on top (you can level it with a spoon).

The other part of the dough, which should remain in the freezer until the closed part of the pie is cooked, is used to decorate the top layer of the pie (grind and sprinkle on the pie).

The sweet cake is placed in an electric oven for 20 minutes. Before baking, the device must be warmed up to 200 C.

Jam and Crumb Shortcake Recipe

The cake is quick to prepare and has a distinctive flavor. It is delicate and soft, it goes well with classic black or green tea.

To prepare such a cake, you need to add additional components to the base ingredients:

• walnuts;
• berry jam;
• grated chocolate with a high content of cocoa beans.