These apricot jam crumble bars are my favorite childhood sweets. Mum Used to make them for our birthday parties alongside many mores delicious recipes. If I can cook like this, imagine what my mum can do! I got all this talent from here.
When my mum came to visit us this year, I made sure she prepared some of those delicious, sweet bars. There is something so different about the recipe when mum does it. I took this recipe from her 3 years ago and I have been making it since. I don’t know what the secret is but when she makes it, it brings back my sweet childhood memories with each bite.
These bars are very easy to make with simple ingredients that can be found at any house pantry with no special equipment.
they are very adjustable, you can make them with any jam or fruit preserve in your pantry. I made those bars many times over the year and used al kind of jam from strawberries, blueberries or raspberries they all are delicious but my favorite one is the childhood apricot version which is why I wanted to share it with you.
These bars check all the boxes:
- Buttery
- Sweet
- Crumbly
- Crispy
- full of jam
- less than 10 ingredients kinda of recipes
- and it takes less than 1 hour to make.
And double check these boxes because is so easy and fast to do.
I can find all the ingredients in my pantry whenever I want to do it and I can do so quickly while my little baby is napping. #mumlife
These bars are pure heaven with each bite, and it will leave your house smelling amazing by the way!
If you like to see this recipe in Arabic check out my mum’s page on Facebook where as she explains this recipe in Arabic along with many other delicious recipe of hers.
If you try this recipe don’t forget to snap a pic and tag us #annacookingconcept we would love to see your creations!
Apricot jam crumble bars
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ½ tsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup melted butter.
- ½ cup vegetable oil neutral
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 jar 450g apricot jam (I used homemade one)
Instructions
- First start by mixing the wet ingredients. In a deep bowl, whisk together the egg with the vanilla and lemon zest than add the sugar, oil and butter and whisk everything together until the sugar has completely dissolved and you have a smooth mixture.
- We start adding the flour and mixing 1 cup at the time until you have a smooth buttery do, you might not need the whole 4 cups depending on the size of the eggs you are using. I used normal medium eggs and ended up using the 4 cups of flour to get that smooth buttery dough.
- Remove a small part of dough (the size of the palm of your hand) wrap it in cling film and put in the freezer to use later to make the crumble top of the bars.
- Then with we spread the remaining part in a baking tray (30x25cm) until you have a evenly spread layer of 1 cm thick.
- Gently spread the jam over the dough leaving 1 cm outline without jam
- Remove the dough part that we put in the freezer; it should be hard by now so you can shred it like cheese o top of the jam with a cheese shredder.
- Bake in a 180 C preheated oven for 20 min in the middle rack of the oven until the edges are slightly golden brown. We turn of the heat and we broil for 3 min from the top. Keep a very close eye while broiling because we just want to give it a nice golden color from the top without burning it.
- Remove from oven and let it sit for 15 minutes before slicing into bars.
- Enjoy!