Orange Bakewell Tart
Ingredients
| 7 ½  - 8 inch flan tin | Continued... | 
| Pastry | Frangipane Filling | 
| 112 gm plain flour | 3 eggs | 
| Pinch of salt | 115 gm caster sugar | 
| 50 gm butter | 115 gm butter | 
| 1 orange | 50 gm ground almonds | 
|  | ½  tspn almond essence | 
| 4 tbspn apricot jam | 1 orange | 
|  | Icing sugar for dredging | 
 
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 200°  C (include an oven sheet).
- Zest and juice one orange and set aside.
- Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl.
- Cut 50 gm of butter into smallish chunks.
- Add the butter to the flour and rub the butter into the flour with your fingers until it beccomes like fine breadcrumbs.
- Using a large spoon, mix in the zest of one orange.
- Mix in just enough orange juice to hold the mixture together. This will likely need just over 1 Tbspn.
- Make the mixture into a ball and flatten it slightly.
- Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 min.
- Butter the flan tin.
- Zest the second orange and keep separate.
- Melt 115 gm of butter in a saucepan over a low heat.
- Discard the white of one egg.
- Whisk 2 whole eggs and one egg yolk with the sugar in a bowl until thick and pale.
- Gently stir the melted butter, ground almonds, almond essence and orange zest of the second orange into the mixture.
- Roll out the pastry between 2 sheets of cling film and line the flan tin.
Cooking
- Spoon the apricot jam into the flan tin and evenly spread it out over the pastry bottom.
- Pour the mixture into the pastry case and bake in the oven (on the baking sheet) for 30 min, until the filling is just set and browned.
Serving
- Allow to cool and dredge with some icing sugar.
Notes