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Pike

Part pastry, part sponge, plus juicy raspberries, to get a mix of textures and flavours that's utterly irresistible.

Part pastry, part sponge, plus juicy raspberries, to get a mix of textures and flavours that's utterly irresistible.

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Cooking Time

Cook: 1 Hour 30 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 12

Cooking Time

Price: 28p per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 81g serving contains

Energy
1122kj
268kcal
13%
Fat
14g
Med
20%
Saturates
8g
Med
40%
Sugars
16g
High
18%
Salt
0.2g
Low
3%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
1385kj/331kcal

Ingredients

100g softened unsalted butter

100g caster sugar

2 medium eggs

100g self-raising flour

75g salted butter

150g plain flour

2 level tsp icing sugar

100g raspberry jam

150g raspberries

1 medium egg

Method

1
For the cake, pre-heat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Grease and line the base of a 20cm shallow cake tin. Beat the butter and caster sugar together until creamy. Add the two eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Fold in the self-raising flour.
2
Put in the tin and level the top. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the top springs back when lightly pressed. Cool on a wire rack.
3
To make the pastry, rub the butter, chilled into small cubes, into the plain flour until it resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the icing sugar, then add water to make a stiff dough. Wrap in cling film and chill.
4
To make the topping, put the cake on a baking tray and spread the raspberry jam on top, leaving a 1cm gap round the edges. Top with the raspberries.
5
Roll the pastry out to the thickness of a £1 coin. Cut into strips about 8mm wide.
6
Beat the egg and use to lightly brush the top edge of the cake. Lay a strip of pastry all the way around. Brush with egg.
7
Lay more strips on top in a lattice pattern, pressing the ends into the pastry rim. Twist another strip and lay it along the edge, pressing it down gently.
8
Brush the pastry with the egg. Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden and serve with a sprinkling of granulated sugar.