1. Recipes
  2. Snacks
  3. Joulutorttu

Nordic

Joulutorttu

Finnish Christmas star tarts: crisp puff pastry pinwheels folded around a dark, spiced prune jam and dusted with icing sugar. Baked in every Finnish kitchen through December and eaten warm with glogi.

SnacksLunch & dinner
45 min20 prep · 25 cookMedium913 kcalper serving
Joulutorttu

Method

  1. Put 60 g of pitted prunes in a small saucepan with 100 ml of water and bring to a gentle simmer. Cook uncovered over low heat for 15 minutes, until the prunes are completely soft and most of the water has gone.
  2. Mash the prunes to a smooth, thick jam with a fork or hand blender, then stir in 1 tsp of caster sugar, 0.5 tsp of lemon juice and 1 pinch of ground cinnamon. The jam should hold its shape on the spoon; if it is loose, cook it another 2 minutes. Spread it on a plate and leave to cool completely — warm jam will melt the pastry.
  3. Heat the oven to 225C and line a baking sheet with baking paper. On a lightly floured worktop, roll 120 g of puff pastry out to an even 3 mm thickness and trim it into 3 squares of about 9 cm.

4 more steps in Feat

Cook it step by step, scale it to your servings, add it to your plan and shopping list, and log it in one tap.

Open in Feat — it's freeiPhone · App Store

Per serving

913kcal
16gprotein
102gcarbs
51gfat
6gfibre

Computed from the ingredients against a food database, not estimated. The full nutrient table is in the app.

Was this recipe useful?

More like this

4 more steps in the app

Open in Feat