Sorry about posting so late tonight. It's finally winter break, though. It'll be nice to finally have time to relax. Today we are making lemon bars. It's important to have something other than chocolate, mint, and peanut butter in the repertoire. These are very nice because they have a nice tart flavor that blends well with the shortbread-like crust. Lemon is also nice and refreshing. Many citrus things are said to cleanse the palate. So it's very important to have a cookie that can cleanse the palate allowing for more cookie eating! Eat cookies to be able to eat more cookies. This logic makes no sense... Anyway, they were always one of my dad's favorites but my mom stopped making them when I was younger because my brother and I were not huge lemon fans. She says that she used to be famous for these bars so I'm very curious to taste these amazing bars.
Here's the recipe.
Recipe provided by my aunt and adapted from Overlake Cookbook.
Lemon Bars:
2 cups sifted flour
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix above ingredients well. Pack into 10x14 ungreased baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes.
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
6 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
1/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Beat eggs lightly. Add sugar and lemon juice and rind. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat into egg mixture by hand. Pour over cookie layer as soon as it comes out of the oven. Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees. Bake another 20 minutes until done. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cool. Cut into squares.
Before...
And After powdered sugar...
They look really good and I can't wait to taste them. Have a great weekend!
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