Lavender walnut fancy

Name: Lavender walnut fancy
Yield: Makes 16 squares
Ingredients: 75 g/3 oz/¾ stick unsalted butter; grated zest of half a lemon; 50 g/2 oz/½ cup toasted and skinned hazelnuts, chopped; 175 g/6 oz/1½ cups self-raising flour; 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten with; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup caster sugar; 2 drops culinary lavender essence; 1 tablespoon lavender sugar; 2 egg whites; 50 g/2 oz/½ cup walnuts, chopped; a drop of lavender culinary essence; 75 g/3 oz/⅓ cup caster sugar; milk

Preparation info

Makes
16
squares

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Floral Baker

By Frances Bissell

Published 2014

About

This is a rather elegant teatime pastry, which can also be served warm as a dessert.

Ingredients

75 g/3 oz/¾ stick unsalted butter
175

Dessert
Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Line or grease and flour a 20 cm/8 inch square cake tin.

Rub the butter into the flour, add the sugars, stir in the egg yolks and enough milk to make a firm pastry-like dough. Roll out to fit the c