Quick fruit shortcake

Name: Quick fruit shortcake
Cook time: 30 min
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup SR flour; 1 cup plain flour; 1 cup sugar; 250g butter, melted; 2 eggs, beaten; 1kg tin apricot halves (or otherpoached or tinned fruit, drained)

Miranda Sharp

October 19, 2011

Time:< 30 mins

Anything with melted butter and no rubbing-in is just fine with me. This comfortably morphs between afternoon tea with a cuppa or as a warm dessert with a dollop of cream.

Ingredients

1 cup SR flour
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar
250g butter, melted
2 eggs, beaten
1kg tin apricot halves (or otherpoached or tinned fruit, drained)

Method

Sift dry ingredients together. Add butter and eggs.
Press two-thirds of the mixture into a well-greased or lined 20x25cm Swiss-roll tin.
Place fruit over mixture and crumble remaining mixture on top.
Cook in moderate oven for about 50-60 minutes

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