Recipes by Barbara Northwood

Blueberry crumble slice

Dec 07 11:34am

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup hazelnut meal
1 tsp ground cinnamon
185g cold butter, chopped
125g cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 tsp grated orange rind
2 x 150g punnets blueberries
Icing-sugar mixture, to decorate

Method
1 Grease 19cm x 29cm rectangular slice pan.

2 Process flour, sugar, hazelnut meal and cinnamon until combined. Add butter and process until mixture is crumbly. Press 3/4 of mixture over the base of pan. Press remaining mixture into a ballshape. Cover and freeze until firm.

3 Cook base in moderate oven (180C) for about 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool in pan.

4 Beat cream cheese, sugar and orange rind in a bowl with an electric mixer until combined. Spread over base, then sprinkle with blueberries. Coarsely grate remaining frozen dough over top.

5 Cook in moderate oven (180C) for 30 minutes, or until topping is golden brown. Stand slice in pan for 10 minutes before cutting.

6 Serve slice warm or cold dusted with icing-sugar mixture.

5 Comments Report Abuse

1. mi7am - Oct 24 12:41pm

CERTAINLY A DIFFERENT KIND OF SLICE I'M USE TO. BUT I'LL GIVE IT A GO. UNFORTUNATELY I CAN'T PRINT THIS RECIPE, IT ONLY PARTIALLY PRINTS OUT, SO I'LL HAVE TO MAKE IT VIA READING FROM THE COMPUTOR. GOOD EXERCISE FOR ME.