Slice of almond jam tart on a blue plate with a larger tart behind it.

Bakewell tart

United Kingdom · Europe

Short description
This tart layers fruit jam beneath a soft almond filling in a crisp pastry shell.
Ingredients
Shortcrust pastry, raspberry jam, ground almonds, butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and sliced almonds or icing.
Cultural note
It is associated with tearoom slices and the long-running confusion between tart and pudding versions.
Common misconception
It is not the same as the older pudding; the tart usually has shortcrust pastry and a frangipane-style filling.

image credit

Bakewell tart on a plate.jpg

creator:
Brynn
license:
CC BY-SA 3.0
modified:
Copied from Wikimedia Commons via a standard 1280px Commons redirect thumbnail, center-cropped/resized, and re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.