Walnut and Lemon Squares

Name: Walnut and Lemon Squares
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Makes: 16 squares
Ingredients: 150 g / 5 oz icing sugar; ½ lemon, finely grated zest and juice drop or two of lemon food colouring (optional); 60 g / 2 oz walnuts, chopped; 175 g / 6 oz butter, softened; 2 large eggs; ½ lemon, finely grated zest and juice; 175 g / 6 oz self-raising flour; 175 g / 6 oz granulated sugar; 120 g / 4 oz rolled oats

Preparation info

Makes:
16
squares

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

Only after baking this excellent and unusual recipe for some years did I discover that my thanks should go to the well-respected cookery writer, Katie Stewart, who first published it.

Ingredients

175 g / 6 oz self-raising flour
175 g / 6

Dessert
Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour into a mixing bowl. Stir in the sugar, oats and walnuts. Add the butter in pieces and use a knife to cut it into the mixture. Beat the eggs with the zest and lemon juice and stir into the mixture for 1 minute. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and smooth level.

Bake in the preheated oven until cooked. Remove from the oven and leave the cake in the tin.