Glazed Citrus Butter Bars

By vealam

Ingredients

• 4 sticks Butter, room temperature
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 cup Powdered Sugar
• 3 Egg Yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 4 cups Flour
• zest and juice 2 Limes, 2 Lemons, 2 Oranges
• Glaze = 2 cups Powdered Sugar + 4-5 tablespoons of the juice from citrus fruits + 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

Details

Servings 48
Adapted from eat2gather.net

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. You will need a 12x 15 baking sheet, see directions for prep below.
Beat together sugars and butter, taking time to scrape down sides of the bowl. Add egg yolks one at a time. Add 3 tablespoons of the zest from the lemons/limes/oranges. Mix salt and flour together gradually add to butter mixture. Dough will be crumbly. Drizzle in 4 tablespoons citrus juice while mixing, scrape down sides of bowl making sure that everything is combined.
Prepare pan by spraying with a non-stick baking spray or whipping crisco evenly over inside of the baking sheet.
Place dough in pan (12×15″ pan, baking sheet type with low rim is what I used), lightly flour hands and then press dough evenly in to all corners of the pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Allow to cool for 5 minutes in pan, then flip bars out on to parchment paper. You will have to make a quick flip of the pan to do this so the bars don’t break in half. Allow to cool.
Whisk glaze together and drizzle glaze over top of bars, and sprinkle with the remaining citrus zest. Cut into squares, store in an airtight container.
Enjoy!
Note: You can leave bars in the pan glaze and cut, with out flipping out if you wish. I like to do it this way because the glazed surface is flat and makes for a prettier cookie bar. You can also spread glaze over bars and then sprinkle zest giving a more even distribution of glaze to bar.