Strawberry Bites

This dish was specially made for Tannu bhabhi who had invited us over to her place for a get together. This dessert is an easy bake & should be a definite hit among the little ones. You can use raspberry jam, blueberry jam, black currant jam, pineapple jam or for that matter of fact any jam of your choice. My pick was strawberry - other than being my favourite, strawberry jam gives a colourful outlook to these treats. I tried making a few shapes (like leaves, stars etc.) out of dough for a decorative topping. But since that experiment flopped I just crumble them on top. You don’t need many ingredients to make this.

Ingredients

• 1 cup (226 gms) Unsalted Butter, softened
• 2 Cup plain flour
• 1 Egg
• 1 cup Granulated Sugar
• ½ tsp. Salt
• 1 tsp. Baking powder
• 1 tsp. Vanilla essence
• 1 cup seedless Strawberry Jam

 Preheat the oven to 375 °F/200° C.

Line a 9X9 inch baking pan with parchment paper and grease/spray it, set aside. 

In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar for a minute. Add egg and vanilla and mix in until combined. 

In to that, add the flour, salt and baking soda and mix it all together until a dough forms. 

Set aside a lemon sized ball dough for the topping and press the remaining dough into your prepared pan; smear the jam all over and take the reserved dough and crumble it for the topping. 

Bake for about 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely before cutting or otherwise you won’t get bars.