Lemon Bars Recipe #66424
Recipe courtesy Gourmet Magazine Show: Cooking Live.
by seahorse73
1 hour | 31 min prep
24 bars
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
Shortbread Base
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cut butter into 1/2-inch pieces.
- In a food processor process all ingredients until mixture begins to form small lumps.
- Sprinkle mixture into a 13x9x2-inch baking pan ad with a metal spatula press evenly onto bottom.
- Bake shortbread in middle of oven until golden, about 20 minutes.
- While shortbread is baking, prepare topping. In a bowl whisk together eggs and granulated sugar until combined well and stir in lemon juice and flour.
- Pour lemon mixture over hot shortbread.
- Reduce oven temperature to 300°F and bake in middle of oven until set, about 30 minutes.
- Cool completely in pan and cut into 24 bars. These cookies keep covered and chilled for 3 days.
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