Luscious Lemon Bars

By adrienne30343

Ingredients

• For Crust:
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
• 1 stick (8 Tbs.) butter, melted but not hot
• For Filling:
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 Tbs. all-purpose flour
• 6 Tbs. juice from 2 lemons
• 2 tsps. finely grated lemon zest

Details

Servings 16

Preparation

Step 1

Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 325°.

Spray an 8-inch by 8-inch baking pan with vegetable cooking spray.

Fit an 8-inch by 16-inch piece of heavy-duty foil across pan bottom and up the two sides as foil overhangs to pull bars from the pan.

Spray foil with vegetable cooking spray.

Mix flour, salt, confectioner's sugar in a medium bowl; stir in butter to form dough.

Press dough into pan bottom (the bottom of a measuring cup dipped in flour helps).

Bake until pale golden, about 20 minutes.

While pastry bakes, whisk eggs, sugar, flour, lemon juice and zest in a medium bowl.

Remove pan from oven.

Add lemon mixture and continue to bake until just set, about 20 minutes longer; let cool in pan for a few minutes and then using foil handles, pull bars from pan and set on a wire rack.

Cool until room temperature.

Cut into squares and serve.