Today I’m sharing a really simple but fun Halloween recipe for kids as part of my easy recipes for kids series. It’s a simple jam tart recipe with a Halloween twist, and it couldn’t be easier to make. Seven year old Small Child made these monster jam tarts all by himself, and was rightly very proud of how they turned out!
As with all of my easy recipes for kids posts, you’ll find a free printable recipe sheet for you to download at the end of this post, so that your own ‘small child’ can give it a go themselves if they like. It makes a fun weekend baking project and there’s isn’t too much mess involved either, always a bonus!
A note on this recipe – we used ready-made pastry to make the process extra quick and easy (I can be a bit of a lazy cook and also Small Child is going through an easily bored or distracted stage so I’m trying to keep cooking projects for him short and easy) but you could of course use any homemade pastry recipe of your choice.
Monster Jam Tarts
Ingredients:
- 375g pack ready made shortcrust pastry
- 1/2 jar blueberry jam
- edible candy eyeballs
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Spray or lightly brush a 12 holed muffin tin with a little oil.
Roll the pastry out into a thin sheet, then use a large flower cutter to cut flower shapes from the pastry. Be sure to re-roll any scraps of pastry to cut out as many flowers as possible.
Push a pastry flower into each section of the muffin tin to make a cup. Pop a spoonful of blueberry jam into each cup.
Bake the tarts in the oven for around 15 minutes until the pastry is golden brown and the jam is bubbling.
Leave to cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes or so, then finish cooling on a wire rack. Be careful when removing the tarts from the tin – the jam will be very hot!
Once the tarts are cold and the jam has re-set, decorate with the candy eyeballs and serve.
As promised, I’ve created a simple child-friendly recipe sheet to go with this recipe – click on the photo below to download the recipe sheet and print it yourself (or click here if that doesn’t work for any reason)
If you’d like some more fun and easy Halloween food ideas, check out the rest of the fun Halloween food section here on the Eats Amazing blog, or follow my Halloween Food Pinterest board for ideas from all over the web! You might also find the rest of my easy recipes for kids section useful – each recipe has been tested by my own little chef, and includes a free printable recipe sheet.
Happy baking!
Grace
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Monster Jam Tarts
Ingredients
- 375 g pack ready made shortcrust pastry
- 1/2 jar blueberry jam
- edible candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Spray or lightly brush a 12 holed muffin tin with a little oil.
- Roll the pastry out into a thin sheet, then use a large flower cutter to cut flower shapes from the pastry. Be sure to re-roll any scraps of pastry to cut out as many flowers as possible.
- Push a pastry flower into each section of the muffin tin to make a cup. Pop a spoonful of blueberry jam into each cup.
- Bake the tarts in the oven for around 15 minutes until the pastry is golden brown and the jam is bubbling.
- Leave to cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes or so, then finish cooling on a wire rack. Be careful when removing the tarts from the tin - the jam will be very hot!
- Once the tarts are cold and the jam has re-set, decorate with the candy eyeballs and serve.
Louise Fairweather says
I never realised you could buy candy eyeballs! I have always made them out of icing but then they aren’t as perfect! Some of the best chefs use ready made pastry I have heard 🙂 Must do these with mine – they would love it x
happyhomebird says
How cute are these! Super idea and easy too. I’m sure my local cake supply shop sells these eyeballs, I’m going to have a go at making these.