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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 25 Minutes |
Ready In: 40 Minutes Servings: 3 |
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This recipe came from USA Weekend. These bars have a crispy topped crust with a bold lemon flavor curd and a buttery crust. You will have a hard time eating just one! Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour |
1/8 teaspoon salt |
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar |
1/2 cup butter, melted but not hot |
2 large eggs |
3/4 cup sugar |
1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour |
2 tablespoons lemons, juice of |
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest |
Directions:
1. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Spray an 8- by 8-inch baking pan with vegetable cooking spray. Fit an 8-inch by 16-inch piece of heavy-duty foil across pan bottom and up the 2 sides as foil overhangs to pull bars from the pan. Spray foil with vegetable cooking spray.
2. Mix flour, salt, confectioner's sugar in a medium bowl; stir in butter to form dough. Press dough into pan bottom (the bottom of a measuring cup dipped in flour helps). Bake until pale golden, about 20 minutes.
3. While pastry bakes, whisk eggs, sugar, flour, lemon juice and zest in a medium bowl.
4. Remove pan from oven. Add lemon mixture and continue to bake until just set, about 20 minutes longer; let cool in pan for a few minutes and then using foil handles, pull bars from pan and set on a wire rack. Cool until room temperature. Cut into squares and serve.
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