Fruit Slice

Name: Fruit Slice
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 340 g butter; 2 medium eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 340 g Demerara sugar; 600 g sultanas; 125 g butter; 125 g margarine; 255 g plain flour; 255 g self-raising flour; 1 tbsp caster sugar; 2 medium egg yolks; 1 egg, beaten, for the egg wash

Preparation info

Makes
18

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

One of the best sellers at Gloagburn and a bake that has been on the menu from day one. You can mix up the fillings, substituting in some chopped dried figs or mincemeat for Christmas.

Ingredients

For the Filling

340 g butter
340 g Demerara sugar
600

United Kingdom
Scottish
Dessert
Vegetarian
Scotland
Christmas

Method

Preheat the oven 160°C/140°C fan/gas mark 3.
Start with the filling. Put the butter, sugar and sultanas in a pan over a medium heat and let the butter melt. Take the pan off the heat and beat in the eggs and vanilla extract.
To make the pastr