Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon shortbread bars. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. In a food processor, combine the flour, confectioners' sugar, and lemon and orange zest. Add butter; cover and process until mixture forms a ball.
Lemon Shortbread Bars is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Lemon Shortbread Bars is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon shortbread bars using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Shortbread Bars:
- Prepare It has two steps
- Make ready 1 . Shortbread cookie base
- Make ready 2 cups Flour (sieved)
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt
- Take 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
- Prepare 1 cup Butter (salted / unsalted) cold
- Prepare 2 . Lemon curd filling
- Get 1 cup Freshly squizzed lemon juice
- Get 2 tbsp Lemon zest
- Get 2 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup Flour
- Get 1/4 tsp Salt
- Prepare 6 Eggs large
- Prepare as needed Green / yellow food colour few drops
Lightly spray with non-stick baking spray and set aside. Remove from oven and cool completely on wire rack. Can be served at room temperature or chilled. Classic lemon bars with shortbread crust and topped with a creamy lemon filling!
Steps to make Lemon Shortbread Bars:
- For shortbread take flour salt sugar in a bowl mix it
- Add essence and butter (in cubes) beat with an electric blender
- Grease a 7" square mould and pour the flour mixture in it, level with the back of a spoon
- Bake it in a preheated oven at 180°C for 20-25 min then take out and cool down
- For lemon curd filling take sugar lemon zest in a bowl and mix it with a fork
- Add flour and salt
- Take eggs in another bowl. and beat
- Add flour mixture to the eggs and mix with a balloon whisk
- Mix lemon juice
- Pour this mixture on the shortbread base and bake at 180°C for 25 mins
Can be served at room temperature or chilled. Classic lemon bars with shortbread crust and topped with a creamy lemon filling! This easy lemon bars recipe makes the perfect batch with a thick crust and perfect lemon filling. This is a great make-ahead dessert bar for picnics, BBQs and potlucks - it's seriously, the best lemon bars recipe! Combine all shortbread ingredients except flour in bowl.
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