Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon bars. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Lemon Bars is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Lemon Bars is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have lemon bars using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Bars:
- Take For the Crust:
- Make ready 1/2 pound (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, each stick cut into 1/2" cubes (keep refrigerated until you put in food processor)
- Make ready 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Make ready 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Take 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- Take For the Filling:
- Prepare 5 extra-large eggs at room temperature (or 6 large)
- Take 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- Take 1.5 tablespoons grated lemon zest (3 to 5 lemons)
- Take 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Prepare 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- Make ready Confectioners’ (powdered) sugar, for dusting
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:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- For the crust, put flour, sugar, and salt in food processor bowl and give it 6 or 7 quick pulses to aerate and evenly distribute all ingredients. - - Then add cold butter cubes straight out of the fridge, distributing them evenly over the dry mixture. Pulse food processor a few times to get everything started, then turn processor on and let the whole mixture go just until almost all of it is formed into a ball. (I say almost all because you invariably have crumbs that don't attach.)
- Dump the dough onto a floured surface and gather into a ball. Flatten the dough with floured hands and press it into a 12-inch tart pan, building up a 1/2-inch edge on all sides. Chill in freezer for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Prick the crust in several spots with a fork, then bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until very lightly browned. Let cool on a wire rack. Leave the oven on.
- For the filling, whisk together the eggs, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and flour until all sugar and salt are completely dissolved. - - Pour into the crust, until it reaches just under the top of the edge (you may have a little left over) and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the filling is set. - - (I actually tend to like a roughly 60% to 40% filling to crust ratio, so I don't always use all the filling anyway.)
- Let cool to room temperature. Cut into triangles or squares and dust with confectioners’ sugar. - - Enjoy!
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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