Luxurious mazarin squares - Lyxiga mazarinrutor

LUXURIOUS MAZARIN SQUARES
Lyxiga mazarinrutor

Approx 30 squares

10 oz soft butter or margarine

1½ cup sugar
3 eggs
1 or 2 drops bitter almond essence
7 oz almond paste
2½ cup flour
2½ teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
1 cup milk

Glaze:

1 ¾ cup powdered sugar
3 to 3½ tablespoons water
2 to 3 tablespoons strawberry jam

Heat the oven to 390F.

Stir fat and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs, one by one, while stirring. Add the bitter almond essence and the grated almond paste. Mix flour, baking powder and vanilla sugar and stir this into the batter alternating with milk.

Spread out the batter in a small roasting pan, approx 10 x 14 inches and covered with baking paper. Bake in the lower part of the oven for about 25 minutes. Allow to cool.

Glaze: Stir powdered sugar and water and gently spread this on top of the cake. Drizzle with strawberry jam, preferably such smooth jam you can buy in bottles (at least here in Sweden, we call it Squeezy). Try to mix jam and glaze a little with the help of the blunt end of a knife. Leave to set, then cut in squares and serve.

Enjoy!

Bella

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