Jam Bars Recipe | Jam Crumble Bars
Looking for an easy, fuss-free cookie bar recipe? Then you've got to try these easy jam bars! You require a handful of ingredients and minimal effort to whip up a batch of this scrumptious and moreish, jam crumble bars!
Servings 16 jam squares
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour, leveled and sifted
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup light/dark brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 - 2/3 cup strawberry jam
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square pan, and line with parchment paper with overhang.
- In the bowl of a food processor, add flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Also, add in white and brown sugar. Pulse it a couple of times to mix the dry ingredients.
- Add cold, cubed butter, and process until the dough looks coarse and crumbly. If you try to squeeze some dough in your hands, it should clump together. Alternatively, you can add all the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Use a fork or pastry cutter to blend in the cubed butter until you have a crumbly dough.
- Reserve 3/4 cup of the dough for the crumble topping. Pat the rest of the dough into the prepared pan. Bake the crust for 10 minutes.
- Remove the baking pan after 10 minutes. Let it rest for 5 minutes.
- Spread the jam all over the baked crust leaving about 1/8 inch space from the edges of the crust.
- Crumble the remaining reserved dough over the jam.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown. Transfer the pan to a wire rack, cool completely before cutting into squares.
Notes
- If you’d like to add oats in these bars: Use 1 cup of all purpose flour and 1 cup of rolled oats. Transfer the crumbly dough prepared in step 3, to a mixing bowl. Add the rolled oats, and work it in gently. Or you can follow the same recipe and just add 1/2 cup of rolled oats to 3/4th of the reserved crumble topping.
- You can also add a few tablespoons of chopped nuts like pecans, walnuts, or coconut flakes, etc to the reserved topping.
- Measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml, 1 teaspoon = 5 ml