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62 Pink SlicePreparation time:40 minutes plus coolen and setten owerneetCewken time:35 minutesMacks: HodsIngredients300g butter or margarine120g caster sugar1 large egg yoakePinch er salt500g plain flour400g raspberry jam500g icenen sugarPink food coloured2 tsp vanilla extract 80ml waterFew items can claim to be more Sunlun than the glorious pink slice. Why pink? Nee idea. But Wearside%u2019s answer ter the tray bayke should be given protected staytus.Instructions1. Pre %u2018eat the oven ter 180%u00b0C/160%u00b0C fan oven.2. Line a 20x30cm tin wir baken parchment or greaseproof payper (ter %u2018elp remove the slice after baken).3. Mack shewer the butter is at rewem temperature, an beat it tergether wir the caster sugar, vanilla extract, salt an egg yoake with an electric blender or whisk until the mixture is a pale colour.4. Stir in the flour usen a wooden spoon then use yer hands ter turn it inter a crumbly dough.5. Press %u2018aarf the mixture inter the base er the tin as evenly as possible - usen a potato masher %u2018ere is %u2018elpful. Smooth the top.6. Spread the jam ower it leaving a 1cm gap from the edge.7. Rowal the other %u2018aarf of the mixture out on a board wir a rollen pin. Put the tin on top an trace rund it wir a knife ter get the rough size yer need. Slide the rowalled mixture off the board inter the tin, covering the jam ter mack make a second layer. Trim if it%u2019s ower big, an press spare mixture rund the sides if it%u2019s too smarl. Dinnet get chewed if it isn%u2019t completely even - the icenen%u2019ll hide it.8. Bake for 35 mins until golden. Leave in the tin to cewel.9. When cewel sift the icenen sugar an stir in 80ml of watter an a little food colouring - try half a teaspoon an add more to taste. Aim for thick icenen (the consistency of clarts). Add mare watter if yer %u2018av tee but dinnet gan on daft - it can very quickly become too runny.10. Pour the icenen ower the base an tilt the tin ter spread evenly. Leave to set owerneet ideally. Remove from the tin an cut into squares.Gan git posh: Use apricot an passionfruit jam an orange food colouren.Cannet be boshed: Gannen buy one from one er many independent baykeries across Sunlun or the A Love Supreme shop ower the rowad from the grund.