Lemon Bars
Lemon Bars

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon bars. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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For the filling, whisk together the eggs, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and flour. The bars will firm up as they cool. For a festive tray, make another pan using limes instead of lemons and adding a drop of green food coloring to give a very pale green. Cut together the butter, flour, granulated sugar and salt.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon bars using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Bars:
  1. Get For crust:
  2. Take 2 cups flour
  3. Get 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  4. Make ready 2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
  5. Prepare For filling:
  6. Take 1 can (15 oz) sweetened condensed milk
  7. Get 4 eggs
  8. Make ready 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
  9. Take Zest of one lemon
  10. Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
  11. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp flour
  13. Make ready Yellow food coloring (optional)

Combine all filling ingredients in bowl. Beat at medium speed until well mixed. Pour lemon mixture evenly over hot, partially baked crust. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, if desired, when the bars are done.

Steps to make Lemon Bars:
  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 by 13 inch baking pan with aluminum foil and set aside.
  2. In a large bowl combine all of the ingredients for the crust and mix together until it forms a dough. Press the dough in the bottom and half way up the sides of the baking pan and bake for 20 minutes. remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes.
  3. In a large bowl combine all of the filling ingredients and mix until everything is well mixed. - Pour into the baked crust and bake for 25 minutes.
  4. Cool for 30 minutes at room temperature and 2 hours in the fridge. Dust with confectioner sugar and cut into bars.

Pour lemon mixture evenly over hot, partially baked crust. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, if desired, when the bars are done. Let cool completely before cutting into bars. These are classic lemon bars featuring a soft butter shortbread crust and a tangy sweet lemon curd filling that's baked to the perfect consistency. The lemon layer is thick and substantial, not thin or flimsy like most other lemon bar recipes.

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