Recipe

Caramel, honey and cashew slice

  • 50 mins cooking
  • Makes 30 Item
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Ingredients

Caramel, honey and cashew slice
  • 2 1/2 cup (375g) roasted salted cashews
  • 1/3 cup (50g) plain flour
  • 1/4 cup (55g) firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 45 gram butter, melted
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/4 cup (90g) honey, plus 1 tablespoon extra, warmed
  • 1 cup (150g) plain flour
  • 1/4 cup (40g) icing sugar
  • 100 gram cold butter, coarsely chopped
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon iced water

Method

Caramel, honey and cashew slice
  • 1
    To make pastry, process flour, icing sugar and butter until crumbly. Add egg yolk and enough of the water to make ingredients come together. Knead dough on floured surface until smooth.
  • 2
    Grease 20cm x 30cm rectangular pan. Line base and long sides with baking paper, extending paper 5cm over sides.
  • 3
    Roll pastry between sheets of baking paper until large enough to line base of pan. Lift pastry into pan and trim excess. Refrigerate 30 minutes.
  • 4
    Preheat oven to 180°C.
  • 5
    Bake pastry base 10 minutes, or until browned lightly; cool.
  • 6
    Reduce oven temperature to 160°C.
  • 7
    Combine nuts, flour, sugar, butter, eggs and honey in medium bowl. Pour mixture over base. Bake about 40 minutes; cool. Brush slice with extra honey before cutting.