Not long ago, i was fasinated by some tangy squares with lemony topping set on a cookie crust from my blogging pals, Jane & Min. The original recipe comes from a beautiful blog, dailydelicious. Take a look at her luscious lemon squares, inviting to made you crave for more!
I did a little adjustment to suit my children's liking tho by replacing the lemon juice to mango juice. I shall made some lemon ones just for myself the next time.
The refreshing taste of mango makes it tantalyzing & addictive, a great dessert perfect for our weather!
Recipe inspired & adapted from dailydelicious-lemon squares
Cookie Crust:
85g Unsalted Butter (cold)
110g Plain Flour
45g Icing Sugar
¼ tsp salt
Filling:
2 Eggs(lightly beaten)
110g Castor sugar
1½ tbsp Plain Flour
⅛ tsp salt
85ml mango juice
2tbsp Whipping cream
Icing sugar (dusting)
½ tsp Mango essence (optional)
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Grease a 7" loose base square pan and line bottom with baking paper.
3. Grate butter using a grater and set aside.
4. Sift flour, icing sugar and salt in a large bowl. Add grated butter.
5. Stir with a wooden spoon until combined and crumbly.
6. Press mixture evenly onto the bottom of baking pan. Freeze it for 15mins.
7. Bake in preheated oven till slightly golden about 15-20mins
8. Take out and meantime prepare filling and reduce oven temp to 175°C
9. Whisk eggs, castor sugar, flour and salt until smooth.
10.Add in mango juice and whipping cream, stir till combined.
11. Pour the mixture over the hot crust and bake filling until set, proximately 18-20mins.
12. Cool on a wire rack.
13. Lift out from pan to cool completely before cutting into squares or any desired shapes you prefer.
14. Dust with icing sugar before serve (serve nice slightly chilled)
15. Enjoy!
For illustrations & original lemon squares recipe, please refer here
Thank you Pook for this wonderful recipe!
Jessie
Nice adaptation into mango squares.
ReplyDelete*b d*, double thumbs up!!
Mmm...looks perfect! Can have a slice please :)
ReplyDeleteLooks lovely, good idea to use mango juice. Next time will try with my favourite juice also, orange maybe? Hehe...
ReplyDeletemm... must be very nice with mango flavour. Am going to make some for school's teachers next week.
ReplyDeleteIt must be very freshing to have this in our hot weather.
ReplyDeletealways feel warm,looking ur blog...
ReplyDeleteThese squares look lovely and perfect for an afternoon tea!
ReplyDeletethis look tempting, perfect with a cup of tea
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy! :)
ReplyDeleteAnn: Sure! Anytime!
Min: Orange squares sound like a great idea too!
Jane: Love to see your mango squares too ;)
Angel: Indeed, cool & refreshing~
BB_hwyee: Happy to see you whenever you visits :)Hope one day you'll explore into baking too!
Angie: Lovely dessert for tea.
Sonia: Will be perfect with your company too ;)
Hey, Jessie! Have I ever told you lemon bars/squares are one of my fave American treats? I've them so many times since I was a student in the States. Love it! Your adaptation is brilliant! I'd never have thought of making it mango-ish! My American family and friends would be so thrilled and surprised if they ever get to try your rendition of this American classic! They make great bake sale item at a garage sale!
ReplyDeleteLemon square is in my to-do-list as well, I simply can't resist anything with lemon...
ReplyDeletePei-Lin: Great you can share with your American family and hope they will like this flavour as well :)
ReplyDeleteneyeeloh: Look forward to see you lemon squares :)