📋 Crostata Di Marmellata Recipe (Italian Jam Tart)

📋 Crostata Di Marmellata Recipe (Italian Jam Tart)

Crostata di Marmellata, a traditional Italian jam tart, is a delightful addition to your dessert repertoire. This rustic treat boasts a delicate, buttery shortcrust pastry dough known as pasta frolla, which serves as a staple in Italian baking and pairs well with the sweet and tangy flavors of various jams and preserves. Home to a crisscross lattice design, the Crostata is an artful and inviting dessert that impresses as much with its appearance as with its taste.

Course Desserts

Cuisine Italian

Keyword crostata with jam, Italian crostata, pie with jam

Prep Time 25

Cook Time 35

Total Time 1

Servings people

Calories 389kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

⅔ cup butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
4 cup flour
3 fresh eggs
2 tablespoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
1 jar peach jam See my homemade

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Making the dough

First mix all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, and baking powder
1 cup sugar, 4 cup flour, 2 tablespoon baking powder, 1 pinch salt
Then add all the wet ingredients
⅔ cup butter at room temperature, 3 fresh eggs
Mix until the dough is formed
If the dough is too warm, wrap it in cling and store it in the fridge for few minutes. Cold dough is easier to roll.
Put the dough on a well-floured surface and cut ½, keep ½ of the pastry aside for the top
Roll the rest of the pastry to make the base of the pie

Preparing the base

Butter and flour the baking pan
Check the size of the pastry vs the size of the pan
Once the pastry is large enough, lay it on the baking pan
Press the dough into the pan
Trim the edges
Pierce the pastry with a fork
Pour the jam and spread it evenly
1 jar peach jam

Preparing the top of the Crostata

Cut the remaining pastry into 8 parts
Make 8 strips with each part: 2 Longer strips, 4 Medium strips, 4 Shorter strips

Baking the Crostata

Place the 2 long strips as a cross in the center
Place the 4 medium strips next all around
Last place at the end the 4 short strips
Bake in the oven for 35 minutes at 355 F - 180 C
Crostata should be served at room temperature

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Notes

The butter should be at room temperature
If the pastry is too warm, place it in the fridge for few minutes. Cold dough is easier to roll
You can use any jam you like, even nutella

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