Blood Orange Crumble Bars
Blood orange crumble bars feature a sweet blood orange jam filling in a buttery shortbread crumble dough ~ they're fabulous!
Servings: 12 bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup (unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
filling
- 1 cup Blood Orange Jam, recipe HERE
optional glaze
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste, or the seeds of 1 vanilla bean, or 1 tsp vanilla extract.
- milk or cream to thin
Instructions
- Set oven to 350F. Lightly spray and line a 9x9 square baking pan with parchment paper with long ends so that you can lift the cooled bars out for easier cutting. This is optional.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until well combined and fluffy.
- Blend in the salt and vanilla. Add the flour gradually and mix until just combined. There should be no more dry flour left, but the mixture will be crumbly.
- Take approximately 2/3 of the dough and pat it into the bottom of the pan. I like to drop crumbles of the dough all over the bottom to distribute it before I start patting it down, this helps get the bottom covered evenly.
- Spread the jam evenly over the dough. Using your fingertips, crumble the remaining dough over the jam.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes, until the bars are just starting to turn golden.
- If you are glazing the bars, let them cool completely before glazing.
- To make the glaze, whisk the sugar and vanilla with enough milk or cream to get a glaze consistency. Drizzle liberally over the cooled bars.
Notes
- Normally I love my bars with a glaze of some sort, but with these I found I preferred them without.
- Store these bars at room temperature covered loosely in foil. Plastic wrap will make them damp.
Nutrition
Calories: 342 kcal · Carbohydrates: 50 g · Protein: 2 g · Fat: 16 g · Saturated Fat: 10 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 41 mg · Sodium: 59 mg · Potassium: 43 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 30 g · Vitamin A: 513 IU · Vitamin C: 2 mg · Calcium: 12 mg · Iron: 1 mg
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