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When I saw that Sally wanted us to make lemon bars, I was not too excited 😏

I love lemon 🍋, but am not a huge fan of shortbread. Just too buttery for me, but it turned out that the crust was not too thick and did provide a nice relief to all that sharp lemon flavor.

Sally has converted me once again! Everytime I think that I won’t like something, I am wrong😂 Now I am a believer!!

There are only 7 ingredients in her recipe, so the quality of each is important🌟

The first step is to bake the shortbread crust. I put the 1 cup of butter into a glass measuring cup, with a pour spout, and melted it in the microwave, just until it was melted (I didn’t want this to boil). While the butter cooled a bit, I whisked up the granulated sugar, vanilla and salt

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The melted butter was added

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Finally the flour was incorporated and stirred into a shiny dough ball, the dough is thick at this point.

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This was pressed into a 9 X 13, parchment lined glass pan

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and baked at 325F for 20 minutes.

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While the crust was in the oven, the filling was prepared. It is also quite easy to assemble!

More sugar and flour were sifted together. I made one small change to Sally’s recipe here and added the zest of the lemons 🍋, I just couldn’t help myself😉

It also turned out that all my eggs were double yolks 😂

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Another important tip Sally gave us was to use freshly squeezed lemon juice. I have to agree with her! I always squeeze it fresh.

 

After the juice was added, the lemon filling was poured over the warm crust and back in the oven for another 20 minutes, until the center jiggled slightly

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Once the bars were done, they sat at room temperature for 2 hours, then in the refridgerator for overnight. Sally recommends they be refriderated for at least two hours but overnight fit my life better 😊

Then it was time to cut! I pulled them out of the pan using the parchment paper and dusted the bars with powdered sugar

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Then cut into squares, a knife run under hot water helped make this a cleaner job!

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I was happy with the look of these 😊

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And the taste! 😋✨

If you are a lemon fan, these are for you!

23 thoughts on “Sally’s Baking Addiction: March, 2019 Challenge: Lemon Bars With Shortbread Crust 🍋”

  3. Oh my goodness!! These look absolutely incredible! I think there might be a spot of drool that tried to form here.

    My husband and I both are big fans of lemon in many different forms. Lemon bars are one of his favorites. These look like they might be worth a try. Thank you for sharing! ❤

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  9. Yum, yum, yum. I love lemon bars or squares. I make some with a pecan shortbread crust, but these look wonderful and seem to have more lemon filling than mine. I am going to add this to my list of recipes that I want to try out. Glad you liked them.

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