Friday’s Bake: Fruit Curd Bars

Yield: 16 2" bars

Fruit Curd Bars

Fruit Curd Bars

YUMMY for your TUMMY! These fruit curd bars are zesty, delicious and so easy to make. With just 5 ingredients. We love the buttery shortbread base!

Ingredients

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  • • 295 g plain flour
  • • 134 g white sugar
  • • ½ teaspoon salt
  • • 200 g unsalted butter cold (divided 30g and 170g)
  • • 260 g fruit curd
  • For best results, always weigh ingredients where a weight is provided

Instructions

  1. •Preheat the oven to 350F. Line an 8 inch square baking tin with baking paper.
    •Melt 30g of the butter, until just melted and set aside to cool slightly
    •In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar and salt.
    •Use the large side of a box grater to grate in the remaining cold butter, then gently work it into the flour mixture with your fingertips or a pastry blender until it looks a bit like breadcrumbs and is well distributed. You don’t need the butter to be completely worked in, just in very small pieces.
    •Stir in the melted butter with a fork and your hands until well distributed and you can squeeze together a clump in your hand. It will still be a crumbly mixture.
    •Set aside ⅓ of the mixture for later, and press the remaining ⅔ of the mixture into the base of the baking pan.
    •Bake for 20 minutes.
    •Let the base cool for 10 minutes, then spread the curd evenly over the top.
    •Crumble and scatter the reserved cookie dough mixture over the top.
    •Bake for a further 25-30 minutes until just starting to turn golden brown on top.
    •Cool in the tin for at least 30 minutes but I suggest letting them cool completely in the pan. This way your base layer is cool, set and won't tend to crumble before you are ready to pop it in your mouth!

Notes

I have made these with passionfruit curd and lime curd. I LOVE passionfruit but have to say the lime version was also delicious. Now to get my hands on some cranberry curd. YUM.

The Best Blondies!

Our first Friday Bake Along of 2025! I thought we’d start with something super simple.  And simple these are! Enjoy! 

Yield: 18-24 servings

The Best Blondies

The Best Blondies
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 240 grams all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 151 grams unsalted butter, melted and cooled
  • 373 grams packed light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate morsels – I use a mixture of mini semi-sweet and milk chocolate
  • ¾ cups sweetened shredded coconut (optional)

Instructions

    1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (350 degrees F). Line a 13x9-inch baking pan with foil or parchment and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
    2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
    3. In a large bowl, whisk together the butter and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla, mixing until well combined. Gradually add in dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in chocolate morsels and coconut.
    4. Spread the batter into the prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes.
    5. Cool in pan completely before cutting

Notes

These are our favorites!

 

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