I made some lemon bars a few days ago. (and then I ate all of them, there aren’t any left now.)
I’m fasting today while I wait to get my cholesterol tested and writing about this is making me so hungry. torture!
Anyway, I used Betty Crocker’s classic recipe
She rarely lets me down. This was almost one of those times.
Lemon Squares
Ingredients
- 1 cup of flour
- 1/2 c butter, softened (one stick)
- 1/4 c powdered sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 c sugar
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp lemon peel
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
the eggs at the farmer’s market are so pretty
farmer’s market, oh how i have missed you
Heat oven to 350 right away. Then mix butter, flour and powdered sugar (weird right?) together. It will be a very soft dough. Press it into the bottom of an ungreased 8x8x2 or 9x9x2 pan. Bake it for about 20 minutes, until it starts to be a little bit golden brown. Mine turned out extremely flaky, maybe too much so. (If anyone has fixes for that… let me know)
Meanwhile, make the lemon curd. Beat the remaining ingredients for about three minutes, until they are light and fluffy. I probably did not do this for long enough.
probably because I tried to do it by hand
I also added extra lemon juice. Pour over the hot crust and bake for another 25 minutes, at which point there will be “no indentation if touched light in the center” (thanks betty c!)
let it cool. I highly recommend freezing these, since they are exponentially better.
VERDICT: okay but disappointing
Me, excited for lemon bars. how quickly that smile would fade. also i was making a thumbs up, you just can’t tell
They were just not as good as I remembered. And definitely not zingy enough. I thought about making a very tart frosting for them from powdered sugar and lemon juice (to taste) but I am not a fan of frosting on bar cookies (eg, frosted brownies and i are NOT FRIEND). So i let it be, and ate them anyway, since they were still quite tasty. They just weren’t what I wanted to bake.
Now, I am not a person who knows when to quit. So expect an update soon, entitled LEMON BARS: PART TWO, the LEMONING
okay sorry that was a REALLY bad joke
I’ve been lazy with photos recently, so today i am going to town
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