Healthiest Lemon Squares Recipe #110931
Normally my family balks at healthy recipes, but my husband was coming back for more of these, and today finished them off (so much for my evening dessert!). I'm posting this to keep handy for myself.
by annlouise
53 min | 15 min prep
SERVES 16
Base
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup oat bran
- 1/4 cup sugar or sucanat
- 1 dash sea salt
- 1/3 cup whole almond
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
Topping
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon, rind of
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- Preheat oven to 350°F For base: Chop almonds very fine.
- Mix dry ingredients, and cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Press into 8x8 pan coated with cooking spray.
- Bake 18 minutes.
- NOTE: I might add more butter next time I do this; the base was a bit too crumbly.
- For topping: Beat all ingredients on high for 3 minutes or until light and fluffy.
- Pour over baked base; bake 20 minutes; cool.
- Dust with powdered sugar.
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