Paradise Slice
Ingredients
For the Pastry Base
- 225g Plain Flour
- 115g Butter or Margarine
- 30g Caster Sugar
- 1 Free-range Egg lightly beaten
For the Filling
- 3-4 tbsp Raspberry Jam
- 115g Butter or Margarine softened
- 115g Caster Sugar
- 1 Free-range Egg lightly beaten
- 80g Glace Cherries quartered
- 120g Currants
- 150g Ground Almonds
Instructions
For the Pastry Base:
- Pre-heat your oven to 190°c (or 170° for a fan assisted oven) and grease a tray bake tin generously with some butter. A 20cmx20cm tin (or equivalent) is ideal.
- In a large bowl, using your fingers, rub the flour and butter/margarine together until it resembles bread crumbs. Stir through the sugar before adding the egg. Mix until combined into a soft pastry.
- Roll the pastry to roughly the size of your pre-greased tin. Transfer to your tin, pushing the pastry into the edges. Trim the excess, prick the pastry all over with a fork and line with some greaseproof paper, before filling with baking beans. Blind bake the pastry for 5 minutes to give the base a head start and avoid a soggy pastry.
- Following the blind bake, remove the baking beans and top the pastry with the Raspberry Jam, evenly spreading over the pastry. Set aside while you prepare the filling.
For the Filling:
- In a large bowl, cream the butter/margarine and sugar until it's light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix until combined.
- To the mixture, add the cherries, currants and ground almonds and mix until combined. Spoon the mixture onto the jam-covered pastry bake and spread around to an even finish, from edge-to-edge.
- Bake for 30 minutes in your pre-heated oven. Once baked, sprinkle the Paradise Slice with some sugar and allow to cool in the tin. Once cool, remove and cut into your desired size.