Description
Bursting with orange flavor and even better when warm, these buttery bars will literally melt in your mouth. Enjoy the custard bars with a cup of soothing tea.
Ingredients
Scale
Crust
- 110g Plain flour
- 20g Almond meal
- 15g Icing sugar
- zest from one orange
- 115g Butter, softened
Custard
- 100g Sugar
- 2 Large eggs (70g each)
- 1/4 cup Fresh orange juice
- zest from one orange
- 40g Plain flour
- 1/4 tsp Baking powder
Instructions
- reheat oven to 180C.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, ground almonds, icing sugar and orange zest. Using a pastry blender (I used food processor), cut in butter until mixture is formed to a soft dough. Press evenly into the bottom of a 8 inch x 2 square (lined) baking pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until light browned.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, orange juice and zest. Combine plain flour and baking powder, add to sugar mixture, whisking to combine. Pour over crust.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until just set. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar and decorate with a piece of mandarin orange on top.
- Category: Baking