Lemon Bars
Lemon Bars

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon bars. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lemon Bars is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Lemon Bars is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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 recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon bars using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Bars:
  1. Make ready Crust
  2. Make ready 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
  3. Get 1/2 cup white sugar
  4. Take 2 cups all purpose flour
  5. Take 1/4 teaspoon salt
  6. Make ready Custard
  7. Take 4 eggs
  8. Take 1/2 cup lemon juice
  9. Make ready 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  10. Prepare 1/4 cup all purpose flour
  11. Get Toppings
  12. Prepare Powdered sugar

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 oven to 350 degrees F
  2. In a medium bowl, combine ingredients for the crust (softened butter, 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar and salt).
  3. Press the dough in an ungreased 9x13 inch pan. Use a fork to poke holes in the dough.
  4. Bake the crust for 15 minutes until firm and golden.
  5. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, lemon juice, and white sugar. Then add the flour.
  6. Take the crust out of the oven and let it cool for a few minutes.
  7. Pour the custard mixture in the baked crust and put it back in the oven for 15 mins.
  8. Let the lemon bars cool to room temperature.
  9. Cut the lemon bars into squares then sprinkle powdered sugar on top.

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. Add the lemon zest and juice and mix until combined. I love lemon bars, but they often fall by the wayside and get forgotten for months at a time in our house.

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