traditional twist...

Christmas is approaching (yay!) so i decided to do a lil twist on a classic finnish christmas treat - Luumutorttu (translates to plum tart/pastry). They're usually shaped to look like stars, however mine ended up a bit more artistic looking than your everyday geometrical star shape. The traditional treat has plum preserves in the middle but since i like adventure i replaced it with some raspberry jam. After all they are my favorite berry- what doesn't go well with it?

RASPBERRY TART

 (vadelmatorttu)

You'll need:

3 sheets of premade pastry dough
(im sure you can find some made by the Pillsbury dough boy)
1 egg
1/2 c (1 1/4 dl) raspberry preserves or jam
2-3 tbs corn starch or potato starch
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Defrost the pastry dough if frozen, cut into 6 squares, so you'll get two squares from one sheet. Make 2 inch slits on each corner of the square- you should have 8 corners now.

Take some starch and mix it into the jam, dollop some on the center of the square then fold over every other corner and press into the middle to make a star shape.
As you can see...my corners didn't stay in the middle and flopped over to the side instead...still looks fancy ;)
Bake as long as it says on the dough box.
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Time to get into the Christmas spirit,...might as well since stores are stocked with decorations and playing the same ol' music too.