Name: Pink jam slice
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Cuts into 24 slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 300g butter at room temperature; 120g golden caster sugar; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 1 large egg yolk; 500g plain flour; 400g raspberry jam; 500g icing sugar; pink food colouring (we used Dr Oetker)

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Pink jam slice

Pink jam slice

Sarah Cook

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Cuts into 24 slices

Easy

Prep: 40 mins

Cook: 35 mins

plus cooling and overnight setting

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A pretty in pink traybake sponge with retro marble icing and a layer of raspberry jam

Freezable (un-iced)

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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300g butter

at room temperature
120g golden caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg yolk
500g plain flour
400g raspberry jam
500g icing sugar
pink food colouring

(we used Dr Oetker)

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Nutrition: per square

kcal313
fat11g
saturates7g
carbs52g
sugars37g
fibre1g
protein2g
salt0.2g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 20 x 30cm baking tin with baking parchment (2 lengths crisscrossing is the easiest way).
step 2

Beat the butter, caster sugar, vanilla and egg yolk together in a large bowl with an electric whisk until pale. Stir in the flour with a good pinch of salt using a wooden spoon – then your hands to bring everything together into a crumbly dough.
step 3

Press half into the base of the tin as evenly as you can – using a potato masher works quite well – and smooth the top. Spread the jam over the top, leaving a 1cm empty border all around the edge. Crumble over the remaining shortbread mixture, then pat down, trying not to dislodge the jam too much. It will look patchy, but don’t worry, the icing will smooth it all out. Bake for 35 mins until pale golden. Leave to cool in the tin.
step 4

Once cool, sift the icing sugar into a bowl, and stir in about 100ml water with some food colouring to a thick-ish but runny icing. Pour over the slice, then tilt the tin to evenly spread. Quickly dot over some more food colouring, then use a skewer or toothpick to swirl and marble the top. Leave to set overnight until the icing is hard, then cut into slices. Will keep in a tin for up to five days.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2014

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