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Orange Poppy Seed Bars

Brenda Janschek
Prep Time 10 mins
Total Time 30 mins

Ingredients
  

  • 165 grams butter softened
  • 1/2 cup rapadura or coconut sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups spelt flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 cup poppy seeds soaked in 4 tablespoons orange juice
  • ICING
  • 150 grams cream cheese
  • 1-2 tablespoon honey or rice malt syrup
  • 1 tablespoon orange juice
  • 2 teaspoons orange zest

Instructions
 

  • Grease and line a slice pan with baking paper
  • Preheat oven to 175 degrees
  • Pop butter and sugar into a bowl and beat with an electric mixture until pale and creamy (1-2 minutes)
  • Add one egg in at a time, beat well
  • Add in the poppy seed/orange mixture and stir
  • Add flour and baking powder and fold in
  • Pour into the slice pan
  • Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean
  • Cool in the tin for 10 minutes
  • Carefully turn onto a cooling rack
  • Ice once completely cool
  • ICING - simply pop all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth
  • Using a butter knife spread icing onto cooled cake
  • Slice into bars
  • I stored them in the fridge