Easiest Ever Plum Tarts

These little plum tarts are based on the french idea of using bread instead of pastry. They taste LOVELY- no one will believe you when you tell them how they are made.

Ingredients

2 Slices of wholemeal bread
4 Plums
Brown sugar (light muscavado, demerara or soft light brown sugar would be best).
Butter

Equipment

An oven dish
A knife
A chopping board.

What to do

1. Using the chopping board, carefully cut the crusts off the bread.

2. Smear butter onto the oven dish. This will stop the crusts from sticking to the dish.

3. Butter the bread on one side – be generous and make sure you butter right up to the edges.

4. Then cut the bread into four squares. Cut the plums in half and then press each half onto a square of bread, the skin side pressed down onto the bread.

5. Dab a little blob of butter – about a quarter of a teaspoon – into each of the plums. Put it inside the hole left by the stone. Then sprinkle the plums with sugar – again, be generous.

6. Bake in the oven at 180 centigrade/Gas mark 4 for about 25 – 30 minutes. They are ready when they smell delicious, and the juices of the plums and the sugar have melted together to make a sticky caramel. Yum!

You can serve these will a blob of custard, cream or ice cream on top. I have even tried them with a square of dark chocolate on top – the chocolate melts and tastes fantastic with the hot plums.