Hungarian tart or krummel tert, is a soft crumbly biscuit like cake similar to the short crust pastry. It can be filled with jam of any flavour. Substitute the jam for apples to make an apple crumble. Serve on its own, with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream. I’m not sure where the name Hungarian tart originates from though, would be interested if anyone could shed some light on the origin of Hungarian Tart.

Ingredients:

125g butter

2 Tbsp cooking oil

1 large egg

2 Tbsp castor sugar

1 tsp vanilla or almond essence

2 cups cake flour, sifted

2 tsp baking powder

Smooth apricot jam (or mixed fruit jam)

Desiccated coconut as needed

Icing sugar as needed

Method:

Grease a small Swiss roll pan. Or you may use a round cake tin

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add egg, oil and essence, mix well.

Add the sifted flour as well as the baking powder, mix into a soft dough.

Refrigerate one third of the dough for about 20 minutes.

Or you can even put it in the freezer for a few minutes.

Press the remaining dough into prepared pan.

Spread a thick layer of jam on top of the dough in the pan.

Sprinkle a thin layer of coconut over the jam.

Grate the remaining dough on top.

Bake 12-15 minutes or until light golden brown at 180°C in a pre-heated oven.

Sift the icing sugar over as soon as it comes out of the oven.

Leave to cool in pan then cut into squares/slices.

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