Lime & almond slice. #yum.
A delicious, smooth, sweet and tangy dessert !
The idea is you cook the base of the cake first and then top with the tangy topping and then bake again.
Adulterated from Good Food.
You need for 6 fashionista or 35 models:
250g butter at room temperature
⅓ cup caster sugar
1¼ cups plain flour
¼ cup rice flour
125g ground almonds
Topping
2 cups caster sugar
4 eggs
Finely grated zest of 1 lime
⅔ cup lime juice, strained
60g plain flour
2 punnets blueberries (optional)
Icing sugar, for dusting
½ cup pistachio nuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
Thick cream, to serve
• Slip into Eres bikini.
• Toss on Pucci caftan.
• Slide into Balenciaga sandals.
• Open wine and guzzle down.
• Preheat oven to 170C.
• Get George Clooney to moisturise and paper line a 23 cm baking tin (A square tin is chic).
• Whiz up the almonds in the whizzer: makes it crunchier and yummier than store bought ground almonds.
• Cream butter and sugar until well combined and looking like a Chanel facemask.
• Fold in sifted flours as you would fold your Prada shirts. Neatly and no wrinkles.
• Stir in almonds.
• Spread this base mixture into the tin and smooth it out like it’s had Botox.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes or until as light golden brown as a Miu Miu Bag and as firm to touch as Bradley Cooper’s abs.
• Remove and cool. That’s the cake not Bradley’s abs.
• Now zest and juice your limes.
• For topping, beat sugar and eggs until well combined.
• Stir in lime zest and juice.
• Sift in flour and mix until smooth as a your legs after laser. LOL.
• Pour filling over base, reduce oven temperature to 150C and bake for 45-50 minutes or until topping is set like Nicole’s Kidman’s face.
• Cool in tin.
• When completely cool cut into chic squares.
• Accessorise with lots of chic berries, dust lightly with icing sugar and sprinkle with pistachio nuts.
• Serve with lashings of thick cream.