Walnut – Orange – Bar

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 300 g ground walnuts
• 2 oranges (organic)
• 150 g flour (whole wheat flour)
• 120 g butter, cold
• 150 g brown cane sugar
• 2 eggs
• 50 g honey
• 150 g powdered sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 50 minutes; Rest time approx. 3 hours; Total time approx. 3 hours 50 minutes

makes 10 pieces

Wash the oranges in hot water, finely grate the zest from 1 orange, and squeeze the juice from both oranges. Make a shortcrust pastry from the flour, 100g nuts, 100g butter, 50g cane sugar, 1 egg, and the orange zest and chill for 1 hour. Take 4 tablespoons of the orange juice for the glaze and set aside. Bring the rest to a boil with the remaining cane sugar and honey and simmer for 5 minutes. Mix in the remaining nuts, bring back to a boil while stirring, then let cool. Then stir in the remaining egg. If the mixture is too thin, simply fold in more nuts; this is done to taste. Pour half of the dough into a 28cm springform pan lined with baking paper and spread out. Do not raise the edges. Spread the nut mixture evenly over the dough. Roll out the remaining dough and cut into strips. Then arrange these strips crisscrossing over the mixture, as with a Linzer Torte. If you like, you can also make the slices on a baking sheet, but I would double the amount of ingredients. Heat the orange juice with the remaining butter. Add the powdered sugar and mix everything until smooth. Immediately spread it on the still-hot pastry. Let cool and cut into bars.