Mabrousheh
A delicious Middle Eastern crumb bar with a jam-filled center that just melts in your mouth!
Servings: 16
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tbsp Orange zest lemon zest can also be used but orange is preferred
- 1 tsp Vanilla Flavor
- 1/2 cup Granulated sugar
- 1 cup Unsalted butter, melted
- 3 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp Baking powder
- 13 oz. Fruit jam of choice strawberry and apricot are recommended but any flavor will work. It is all preference.
- Powdered Sugar for Sprinkling on top
Instructions
- First, beat together the sugar, butter, vanilla, eggs, and orange zest until it becomes pale yellow in color.
- Then, add the flour and baking powder and mix together by hand, rubber spatula, or with a paddle attachment.
- Reserve half the dough to be grated for the topping of the bar and the other half as the base.
- Place the reserved dough for the topping in a ziplock and into the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Spread out the remaining dough into a thin layer onto a lightly greased 9 by 13 baking pan.
- Spread all the jam evenly on top of that layer leaving 1 inch around all the edges.
- Grate the dough that was placed in the freezer on top of the jam layer covering the jam. It gives it a streusel look/effect.
- Bake in the oven for 25 minutes on the bottom rack then another 10 min on the tap rack.
- Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into 16 even bars!