August Bank Holiday weekend saw a bit of a jam-making fest at my house, so I sought out a recipe to use some of it up! Delia's Viennese Tartlets (on page 107 of Delia's Cakes) were not something I had tackled before and since they are filled with jam they seemed perfect.
The recipe is very heavy on butter and flour with a bit of icing sugar and cornflour basically - all ingredients you can usually find in the house without making a special trip. There really isn't much to it - mix all the ingredients then divide between paper cases. The tricky bit was shaping the mixture, because they each needed a well in the middle for the jam to fit into later. The mixture is a stiff one so it wasn't the easiest thing to do, or to make look neat.
They smelled beautiful while baking, and the texture is a strange one - very short and buttery (as Delia describes), like some sort of cross between a fairy cake and a shortbread biscuit. I used up the dregs of my homemade jam - four strawberry, four raspberry and four blueberry. Once they were cool, in went the jam and they were ready to eat.
I'm not sure I would do this again, although they make a nice alternative to jam tarts if a jammy treat is what you're after, and although not quite as neat looking, the tartlet mixture is a lot less hassle than making pastry. They did taste lovely. All in all a successful bake... but it hasn't changed my life.
Twelve Months. Ninety-three recipes. Three sweet-toothed home bakers (who happen to run a cake business). Inspired by the 'Julie/Julia Project' Rebecca, Julie and Laura, of 'Chitty's Cakes' in Birmingham have set themselves the challenge of baking each and every recipe in the newest edition of 'Delia's Cakes' in one year. Beginning and ending on Delia's birthday, 18th June, and sharing the results both good and bad - we'd love to hear your comments and experiences too!
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