Lemon Shortbread Bars
Lemon Shortbread Bars

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Lemon Shortbread Bars is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Lemon Shortbread Bars is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

In a food processor, combine the flour, confectioners' sugar, and lemon and orange zest. Add butter; cover and process until mixture forms a ball. 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.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have lemon shortbread bars using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Shortbread Bars:
  1. Make ready It has two steps
  2. Make ready 1 . Shortbread cookie base
  3. Prepare 2 cups Flour (sieved)
  4. Make ready 1/4 tsp Salt
  5. Take 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
  6. Take 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
  7. Make ready 1 cup Butter (salted / unsalted) cold
  8. Take 2 . Lemon curd filling
  9. Get 1 cup Freshly squizzed lemon juice
  10. Take 2 tbsp Lemon zest
  11. Prepare 2 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
  12. Make ready 1/3 cup Flour
  13. Get 1/4 tsp Salt
  14. Prepare 6 Eggs large
  15. Get as needed Green / yellow food colour few drops

The creamy lemon filling and shortbread crust also have different textures, which make for a more interesting and enjoyable dessert. Lemon shortbread is an Irish favorite and a glorious mixture of butter, sugar, and flour. Add a little zing with lemon zest and these shortbread bars are taken to the next level of deliciousness. When made with creamy Irish butter, this recipe creates luscious, rich cookie bars.

Steps to make Lemon Shortbread Bars:
  1. For shortbread take flour salt sugar in a bowl mix it
  2. Add essence and butter (in cubes) beat with an electric blender
  3. Grease a 7" square mould and pour the flour mixture in it, level with the back of a spoon
  4. Bake it in a preheated oven at 180°C for 20-25 min then take out and cool down
  5. For lemon curd filling take sugar lemon zest in a bowl and mix it with a fork
  6. Add flour and salt
  7. Take eggs in another bowl. and beat
  8. Add flour mixture to the eggs and mix with a balloon whisk
  9. Mix lemon juice
  10. Pour this mixture on the shortbread base and bake at 180°C for 25 mins

Add a little zing with lemon zest and these shortbread bars are taken to the next level of deliciousness. When made with creamy Irish butter, this recipe creates luscious, rich cookie bars. Let cool completely before cutting into bars. Combine all glaze ingredients in bowl; beat with whisk until smooth. Lemon Bars (some called them Lemon Squares or Lemon Slices) are instantly recognizable because of their liberal coating of snowy white confectioners (powdered or icing) sugar.

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