Slice of nice

Wee bit well-done on the sides

(Trying out instagram here) These badboys are lemon squares and they're pretty good. I cut little hearts out of paper and placed them on top of the squares before I dusted with icing sugar, then I realised that the icing sugar just dissolves so don't bother! Here's the recipe:

Layer One

• 185g plain flour
• 60g icing sugar
• 180g unsalted butter (chopped into really little chunks)

Pre-heat oven to 150c (fan oven). Mix up all the ingredients and rub with your fingers until you've got bread crumbs, lightly press the crumbs into a greased-up square tin (preferably 20-30cm but you can work with what you've got of course!) and bake for 25 minutes. 

Layer Two

• 6 eggs beaten 
• 460g caster sugar
• 2 teaspoons of grated lemon zest
• 250ml lemon juice (fresh or that bottled stuff, it doesn't really matter)
• 65g plain flour

Whisk the eggs and sugar until pale and thick (this will take like 3-4 minutes if you have an electric whisk, and about a million years if you're old school and are doing it by hand). Whisk in the lemon zest and the juice, then tip in the flour and mix it all up, pour this mixture over layer one then bake in the oven for 25 minutes. After this get some tinfoil and cover the whole thing and bake for another 20 minutes - your kitchen will be smelling so good right now. When it's done let it cool before you get the whole thing out the tin, then you can slice them up and enjoy!