Ingredients:
- for Pastry:
- Flour 2 cups
- Caster sugar 1/2 cup
- Baking powder 1/2 tsp
- Salt 1/2 tsp
- Butter (softened) 1 cup
- Egg (beaten) 1
- for Apple Filling:
- Caster sugar 1/2 cup
- Flour 1/4 cup
- Cinnamon 1 tsp
- Apples (sliced & peeled) 4 cups
- for Glaze:
- Icing sugar 2 cups
- Milk 3 tbsp
- Almond essence 1 tsp
Method:
- To prepare crust, mix flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl.
- Cut in butter with a pastry blender or two knives until you have crumbs.
- Gently mix in beaten egg. Gently pat about 2/3 of the crumb mixture onto the bottom of a greased dish.
- To prepare apple filling, combine flour, sugar, and cinnamon and toss with apples.
- Spread apples out on prepared crust.
- Sprinkle reserved crust mixture over apples evenly and bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes.
- When finished, allow to cool completely.
- To prepare glaze, whisk together icing sugar, almond essence, and enough milk to achieve desired consistency.
- Place glaze in a plastic bag and cut off a very small portion of one of the corners to drizzle glaze over cooled pastry and allow to harden.
- Cut into bars and serve.