Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon bars. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to 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 yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Lemon Bars is something that I’ve loved my entire 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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lemon bars using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Bars:
- Take For crust:
- Make ready 2 cups flour
- Take 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- Prepare 2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
- Prepare For filling:
- Make ready 1 can (15 oz) sweetened condensed milk
- Take 4 eggs
- Take 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
- Get Zest of one lemon
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp flour
- Take 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.
Instructions to make Lemon Bars:
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 by 13 inch baking pan with aluminum foil and set aside.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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