Ultimate Lemon Bars

The Ultimate Lemon Bars

This lemon bar recipe was pasted down to me from a lemon bar coinsurer. The recipe is easy although attaining the perfect set of lemon bars is not. Have fun trying to create this zingy masterpiece.

Ingredients for Crust

1 cup powdered sugar

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup butter (should be a chilled room temperature, never melted!)

Ingredients for the Lemon Bar Mixture

5 Eggs

2 cups Sugar

¾ cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice

½ cup (+) 2 tbl spoons flour

½ tsp baking powder

Grade in 2 tbl spoons of fresh lemon shavings

Directions

Preheat Oven to 325 degrees.

Make the crust by adding powdered sugar, flour and butter together. Mix with hands until dough like consistency is reached, but do not over mix or this will create a dough that is too crumby!

Place dough in a pan and bake for 15 minutes.

While crust is heating up, mix all ingredients for lemon bars together. First though you must beat the eggs. Add one egg at a time and beat, slowly adding each one and beating well. After you have done this, then add the other ingredients and beat the entire mixture.

When crust comes out of the oven, pour the mixture on top and place back into the 325 degree oven to complete baking.

Should bake for about 25 minutes

Remove from oven and sprinkle with more fresh lemon shavings and some powdered sugar.