Lemon Bars

By kdet

Ingredients

• Filling:
• 6 whole eggs
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
• zest from 2-3 lemons (2 tablespoons)
• Crust:
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of butter (3 sticks) melted

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from welcome-home-blog.net

Preparation

Step 1

In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until light in color. Add in the sugar, baking powder and flour and stir until combined. Add the lemon zest and the lemon fresh lemon juice and stir well. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray a 9 x 13 baking pan with cooking spray.

Mix flour and powdered sugar together. Add the melted butter and mix until just crumbly. Press the crumbs firmly into the pan making an even layer. Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove crust from oven and pour your lemon filling over the crust making sure you get an even layer. Bake for an additional 45 minutes until lemon filling is set and no longer jiggles in the middle.

You can just use powdered sugar for your topping but I usually reserve 1/4 cup crust mixture and mix it with an additional 2 teaspoons of flour and 2 teaspoons of sugar

and crumble it up with my fingers until fine. Then I sprinkle the mixture over the top of lemon filling before baking. After baking, I then sprinkle with more powdered sugar before cutting into squares.