Pasta flora/frola, the artistic pie!

Pasta flora/frola, the artistic pie!

Want to try a pie that have the looks, it's easy, tasty and practical? Then, pasta flora/frola is for you :)

I explain myself. According to your artistic talent, it can be gorgeous. It takes only few minutes to prepare. It's tasty as you can adapt it to your preferences. Finally, is practical, as it can be used for breakfast accompanied of a yoghurt, and your favorite drink (coffee, tea, juice, ...). I would even dare to consider it healthier than a simple cake. For my friend Lina today!

Here it goes...

Ingredients

1 cup of butter

1/3 cup of sugar

1 egg

2 spoons of brandy

vanilla flavor

3 cups of all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 cup of your favorite jam (here strawberries)

Variation: instead of egg and brandy you can replace them with the juice of an orange (I prefer this version, but did not have today)

Procedure

Put the butter for a while in the microwave oven to become slightly softer. Stir with a mixer all ingredients apart from flour and baking powder. Take away the mixer. Add the flour with the baking powder little by little and use your hands to make a nice dough. 

Grease a low baking dish (30cm of diameter).

Put 2/3 of the dough to the baking dish and with your hands cover it homogeneously.  







Add the jam on top and spread it with a spoon.

 Use the remaining 1/3 of the dough to cover the pie according to your artistic inspiration :) Even better, ask your kids to play with the dough and decide themselves for the final result. The taste will be unchanged! 
Preparation time, as you can realize, can vary a lot depending on your expectations (low/high :)
Put the pie in the oven at 175 degrees (Celsius) with air for about 30min. Enjoy!

And this is a version the my kids did :)