Pecan And Honey Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, diced, plus a little extra to grease
    1 cup plain flour
    1/2 cup sugar
    1 egg
    1 lemon zest, finely grated
    TO MAKE TOPPING
    3/4 cup butter
    1/4 cup honey
    4 tablespoons sugar
    3/4 cup brown sugar
    5 tablespoons whipping cream
    2 cups pecans
Preparation
    Lightly grease a 14x11-inch swiss-roll tin.
    Sift flour and salt into a bowl, Stir in sugar, then rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Blend egg and lemon zest. Press mixture into tin and prick pastry all over with a fork. Chill for 10 minutes.
    Preheat oven to 375\u00b0F.
    Bake pastry for 15 minutes, then remove from oven, leaving oven on.
    Heat butter, honey and sugars in a saucepan until melted, then bring to a boil without stirring for 2 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat and stir in cream and nuts. pour over base, return tin to oven and bake for 25 minutes. Cool in tin.
    Run a knife around pastry edge, invert on to a baking tray, place another tray on top and invert again. Cut into squares.

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