Lemon Shortbread Bars
Lemon Shortbread Bars

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Lemon Shortbread Bars is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lemon Shortbread Bars is something which I have loved my whole life.

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 particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lemon shortbread bars using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

A thick layer of buttery shortbread topped with a tart lemon curd filling, dusted with a sprinkling of powdered sugar. 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.

Instructions 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. 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. The day these bars are made you will find the shortbread crust is crisp and the lemon filling is tart and tangy.

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