Raspberry and Almond Bars

Name: Raspberry and Almond Bars
Yield: Makes 16
Ingredients: 30 ml icing sugar, plus extra for dusting; 5 ml baking powder; a pinch of salt; juice and zest of 1 lemon; 30 ml melted butter; 125 ml ground almonds; 350 g slivered almonds; 230 g cold butter, diced; 280 g cake flour; 15 ml cornflour; 125 ml icing sugar; 550 g fresh raspberries; 1 large egg, beaten; 125 ml desiccated coconut; 200 g brown sugar

Preparation info

Makes
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious

By Zola Nene

Published 2016

About

My ode to jam squares; these are my pimped-up version of the classic.

Ingredients

For the base

280 g cake flour
125 ml ground almonds
125

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180 °C and line a deep, approximately 40 × 30-cm rectangular baking tin with baking paper.
To make the base, sift the flour into a bowl and mix in the ground almonds, coconut, sugar, baking powder and salt.
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