Pink Grapefruit Bars

Name: Pink Grapefruit Bars
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 125 g (4¼oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 250 g (9 oz) unsalted butter, melted; 5 g (⅛ oz) vanilla extract; 5 g (⅛ oz) sea salt; 375 g (13 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted; 70 g (2½ oz) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted; Pink food colouring (use as suggested on packaging); icing (powdered) sugar, for dusting; 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 450 g (1 lb) eggs; 450 g (1 lb) pink grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed (2 or 3 grapefruits); 450 g (1 lb) pink grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed (2 or 3 grapefruits)

Preparation info

Makes
10–16
bars

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

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By Rich Myers

Published 2023

About

It’s really important to use real grapefruit juice, not from a carton. I realise that squeezing this much fresh grapefruit juice sounds ridiculous, but if it’s not freshly squeezed it just won’t taste anywhere near as good.

Ingredients

For the shortbread

375 g (13 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted
250 g (

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C (320°F/gas 3).

To make the shortbread base, all you’ve got to do is mix all of the ingredients in a mixing bowl until they come together and form a dough. The dough shouldn’t be at all sticky, and it shouldn’t stick to your hands, but if it does just m