Lemon and Pistachio Slice

I'm a chocoholic. I grew up in a family of them and I always will be a member of this delicious club. But I've got a soft spot for anything lemony - lemon meringue pie, lemon sour cake and now, lemon and pistachio slice. This recipe is super easy (retro Bessemer or Pyrex optional!)

Dough Ingredients
1 1/2 cups of plain flour
2 tablespoons of caster sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

                                                                  

                                                                              Filling Ingredients

60g butter

1 teaspoon of grated lemon rind

1/2 cup of caster sugar

3 eggs

1/4 cup of lemon juice

1 tablespoon of plain flour

1/2 cup of desiccated coconut 

                                                                               
                                                                                   Lemon Icing

1 1/2 cups of icing sugar

1 teaspoon of soft butter

1 tablespoon of lemon juice (approximately)

1/2 cup of crushed/chopped pistachios (approximately)

What to Do

1. Sift flour into medium bowl, stir in sugar, rub in butter, add egg yolks and essence. 

2. Mix ingredients into a firm dough.

3. Press the dough into the base of a greased slice or brownie tray.

4. Bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes, and meanwhile make the filling.

5. Beat the butter, rind and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer until it is smooth.

6. Add the eggs one at a time and beat until combined.

7. Stir in the remaining filling ingredients.

8. Pour the filling over the hot dough base and bake at 180 degrees for a further 30 minutes or until the filling is set. Meanwhile, make the lemon icing.

9. Sift the sugar into a small heatproof bowl, stir in the butter and enough juice to make a stiff paste. I like a really lemony icing so I add quite a more lemon, along with more icing sugar.

10. Stir the mixture in the bowl over hot water until it is spreadable.

11. Stand the slice for 10 minutes once it has baked in the pan, then spread with the lemon icing, and sprinkle with the pistachio nuts. 

Someone stole the corner!

And now - eat!

This Weekend ...

Was jam-packed.

Firstly the faithful laptop decided not to co-operate with it's battery anymore, leaving me high and dry and in the need for something new.

3 hours later (I'm not the world's best decision maker when it comes to technological things) and I had a shiny new laptop in my arms.

Never leave me, my darling. 

On Sunday I went to my first Big Day Out ever. First and last probably, the likes of Sunset Sounds and Splendour are much more my style. There's something about being shoved up against 1000 other people, vying for a terrible view of whoever is on stage and wiping sweat off you that belongs to someone else that just screams 'I think I'm a little over this, I'd like to go home now'.

It was such a great day though - Vampire Weekend were amazing, I lost about 2kg in sweat watching Childish Gambino (Troy from the TV show 'Community' for those of you playing at home), The Killers were the surprise act of the day and despite sound issues, seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers was a teenage dream come true.

Childish Gambino

Image courtesy of Andrew Wade

Vampire Weekend

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Image courtesy of Andrew Wade

The hunt for a petrol station took me past a new little opshop where I discovered these beauties - I now think the pyrex cupboard is becoming more than a little full, I'll do a pyrex collection post soon!

But for now it's back to the real world, and I can't ignore the pile of articles and readings to be done for much longer.