Lemon Bars
Lemon Bars

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lemon bars. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mix the lemon juice and eggs, then sieve into a bowl with the sugar, flour and zest. Cool in the tin, dust with icing sugar, then slice. The bars will firm up as they cool.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lemon bars using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Bars:
  1. Prepare For the Crust:
  2. Take 1/2 pound (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, each stick cut into 1/2" cubes (keep refrigerated until you put in food processor)
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  4. Take 2 cups all-purpose flour
  5. Take 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  6. Prepare For the Filling:
  7. Get 5 extra-large eggs at room temperature (or 6 large)
  8. Prepare 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
  9. Get 1.5 tablespoons grated lemon zest (3 to 5 lemons)
  10. Take 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
  11. Take 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  12. Take 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  13. Prepare Confectioners’ (powdered) sugar, for dusting

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. This will help you remove the bars later for easy cutting. Sift the flour, salt, and powdered sugar into a bowl and whisk together.

Steps to make Lemon Bars:
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. For the crust, put flour, sugar, and salt in food processor bowl and give it 6 or 7 quick pulses to aerate and evenly distribute all ingredients. - - Then add cold butter cubes straight out of the fridge, distributing them evenly over the dry mixture. Pulse food processor a few times to get everything started, then turn processor on and let the whole mixture go just until almost all of it is formed into a ball. (I say almost all because you invariably have crumbs that don't attach.)
  3. Dump the dough onto a floured surface and gather into a ball. Flatten the dough with floured hands and press it into a 12-inch tart pan, building up a 1/2-inch edge on all sides. Chill in freezer for 10 to 15 minutes.
  4. Prick the crust in several spots with a fork, then bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until very lightly browned. Let cool on a wire rack. Leave the oven on.
  5. For the filling, whisk together the eggs, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and flour until all sugar and salt are completely dissolved. - - Pour into the crust, until it reaches just under the top of the edge (you may have a little left over) and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the filling is set. - - (I actually tend to like a roughly 60% to 40% filling to crust ratio, so I don't always use all the filling anyway.)
  6. Let cool to room temperature. Cut into triangles or squares and dust with confectioners’ sugar. - - Enjoy!

The base will still look pale and white in colour. Wrap them tightly in plastic wrap sealing out as much air as possible. For added protection, slide the wrapped bars into a freezer bag or air-tight container. To serve, thaw them overnight in the refrigerator. For the filling, whisk together the eggs, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and flour.

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