Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, lemon bars. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Excellent, everything a true lemon bar should be. These lemon squares are a delightful recipe from my mother's file. I've been serving it for many years.
Lemon bars is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Lemon bars is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lemon bars using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon bars:
- Take 250 g plain flour
- Prepare 285 g golden caster sugar (normal caster sugar will work fine)
- Prepare 140 g cold block butter
- Prepare 3 large lemons, zest and juice
- Prepare 3 eggs
Let cool completely before cutting into bars. Butter: Melted butter is the base of the shortbread crust. Sugar: Sugar sweetens the crust and lemon curd filling layers. Not only this, it works with the eggs to set up the lemon filling.
Instructions to make Lemon bars:
- Preheat oven to 180°c fan and line a 22cm square shallow baking tin with greaseproof paper. If you don't have a square tin that's fine, you can use a round or oval tin or even baking dish like I did, you just won't get evenly shaped bars.
- Put 225g of the flour into a mixing bowl with 85g of the sugar. Cut all the butter into small pieces and add to the flour and sugar.
- Rub the butter into the flour and sugar using your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs and there are no pieces of butter left. Be patient, this will take 7-10 minutes but makes all the difference to the base.
- Tip the flour, sugar and butter mixture into the prepared baking tin/dish. Spread it out evenly and then press it down firmly all over. Then set aside.
- Into a large bowl put the lemon zest and juice. Add the eggs and gently whisk until combined. Add the remaining 200g sugar and gently whisk again. Then add half a lemons worth of cold water, I just put the water in my lemon squeezer to measure.
- Add the remaining 25g of flour to the lemon mixture and gently whisk one last time. If there are lumps of flour that's absolutely fine. Put this lemon topping aside for now.
- Put the base prepared earlier into the oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden. Be sure not to over bake. Take it out of the oven and then straight away pour the lemon topping mixture over the base. Do not let the base cool before putting the topping on.
- Put the tin/dish back into the oven for another 10-15 minutes until the top is just set and has a wobble. Remove from the oven and leave to cool before removing from the tin/dish. Once cool peel off the greaseproof paper and cut into bars.
If reduced, the filling will be too wet. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, if desired, when the bars are done. Lemon Bar Recipes Summery, sweet-tart lemon bars topped with powdered sugar are easier to make from scratch than you think. Plus, they make for an elegant treat to serve at picnics or parties. Add the lemon zest and juice and mix until combined.
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