Luscious Lemon Bars
By: Lemon Drop
Published: Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 7:18am

Ingredients




WHAT YOU NEED
Crust ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup unsalted butter (melted)
1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
Lemon filling:
4 large eggs at room temperature (beaten with a whisk til light and fluffy)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 3/4 cups fine white sugar
1 zest of large lemon
1 juice of large lemon (or 2 small lemons- basically enough for ½ cup of juice)
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Preparation

1 PREHEAT oven to 350F 2 GREASE 9x13 inch rectangular cake pan 3 COMBINE crust ingredients and press with fingertips into pan 4 BAKE for 20 minutes 5 FILLING: As crust is baking combine all remaining ingredients and whisk together until well combined. 6 When crust is baked, remove from oven, fill with lemon filling; return to oven 7 BAKE for an addition 23-25 minutes (don't let the top get overbrown - see pic above for what you are looking for!) 8 REMOVE from oven and allow to cool for 1/2 hr on a wire rack. 9 Tip: To remove from baking pan, cut the bars in half and remove each half with a large flexible spatula. Then finish cutting bars into squares 10 DUST with sifted icing sugar and you are DONE. 11 Last steps - VERY IMPORTANT: Put on a pot of tea and I will be there shortly ;) 12 See recipe PLUS photos @ my blog: http://lemondropsfoodie.blogspot.com/2011/02/luscious-lemon-bars.html

About


These bars have a gorgeous crumbly shortbread crust and a mild lemon topping. Adding flour gives the topping a perfect consistency; no more runny bars !!