Joulutorttu, Finnish Traditional Christmas Pastry

Name: Joulutorttu, Finnish Traditional Christmas Pastry
Ingredients: 250 g puff pastry dough (4 sheets, frozen); plum jam; apple jam; anko; powder sugar

Nordic bakery made from puff pastry dough. It’s filled with plum jam and decorated with powder sugar. A Christmas recipe.

Prep Time 0 mins

Cook Time 30 mins

Servings 8 pieces

INGREDIENTS

puff pastry dough (4 sheets, frozen) 250 g
plum jam
apple jam
anko (recipe is here, you can buy at online store)
powder sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Take out the ready-made puff pastry dough and unfreeze.
Heat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Cut dough as square and decorate following the picture.Fill the center with jam and anko suitable to be cooked in the oven.
Cook on the center level for about 10-15 minutes. They should have a nice light brown color.
After cool down, pour some powder sugar in the colander and sprinkle it on the Christmas tarts.
Serve and enjoy!
Anko suits really nice for Christmas tarts!
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NOTES

You can make your own puff pastry dough, but it takes time and effort. We prefer to use readymade doughs. One thing we find important when choosing the dough is that it’s made from real ingredients like plain butter and flour. Of course, each one to their own preference, we prefer no palm oil for a pastry dough, or anything else for that matter. Let’s keep it nice, simple and delicious.

Christmas tart is a very traditional bakery product found in every Nordic country. Plum jam is normally used in these, but oven suitable apple jam with cinnamon is very delicious. An anko! I strongly recommend trying a Finnish Japanese Christmas tart with anko!

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