Enjoy these almond squares with your afternoon tea or as a treat whenever you feel like something sweet but not too sinful.
Ingredients:
For the pastry:
- 100 g flour
- 100 g ground almonds
- 75 g sugar
- 50 g butter
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1 egg
For the Almond topping:
- 200 g ground almonds
- 50 g chopped almonds
- 50 g soft brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 100 ml water
- Zest of one orange
- Some icing sugar and flaked almonds to sprinkle on top after baking
Instructions:
- To make the pastry, mix the sugar with the flour and ground almonds, then rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the zest and egg and a little water and form a dough. Knead lightly and leave to chill.
- For the almond topping, mix all the ingredients together and chill.
- Roll out the pastry and cover the bottom of a greased baking tray with the pastry.
- Spread the almond mixture on top with a spatula.
- Bake at 180 C for about 10 minutes until the colour turns to a pale gold.
- Allow to cool. To serve cut into squares and sprinkle with flaked almonds and icing sugar.
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