Apple And Jam Bars
These bars are perfect to serve as a dessert with some custard, or enjoy on their own at tea time
Makes enough for: 1 batch jam bars
Ingredients
for the filling
- 1 apple of your choice, peeled and diced
- 1/2 orange, zest and juice
- 25 g fructose
- 125 g berry jam (I used Wild Blueberry)
- 25 g flaked almonds
for the pastry
- 150 g flour
- 22 g almond flour
- 85 g fructose
- 125 g chilled butter, cubed
- 1/2 orange, zest only, finely grated
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Line a loaf tin with baking paper
for the filling
- Place the apple, zest, juice and fructose into a small saucepan
- Bring to a boil over a medium to high temperature
- Reduce the heat and simmer for 8 minutes
- Set aside to cool
for the pastry
- Place all of the pastry ingredients into the bowl of a food processor
- Pulse until it just forms a dough, making sure not to overmix
to assemble
- Once the apples have cooled, add the jam
- Mix well to combine
- Scoop out two-thirds of the pastry dough and press into the base of the tin
- Place the apple mixture on top of the pastry dough
- Drop pieces of the remaining pastry dough over the top of the apple mixture
- Scatter the almonds on top
- Bake for 45 minutes
- Remove from the oven and set aside to cool in the tin
- Cut into bars and store in an air tight container
Notes
To prevent the bars from burning on top, I covered them after 25 minutes with the foil from the butter.