Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon bars. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lemon bars is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lemon bars is something that I have loved my whole life.
The lemon curd filling is extra thick and creamy and sits on an irresistible butter shortbread crust. These tart, rich lemon bars need just seven common ingredients you probably already have, and Excellent, everything a true lemon bar should be. If you LOVE lemon, these Classic Lemon Bars are for you!
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon bars using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon bars:
- Take 250 g plain flour
- Take 285 g golden caster sugar (normal caster sugar will work fine)
- Prepare 140 g cold block butter
- Take 3 large lemons, zest and juice
- Get 3 eggs
Watch the full instructional video and get the recipe here! Lemon bars are really easy to make and a delight to savour! Made with a classic Scottish shortbread base and a fresh lemon curd topping that is a lovely balance of sweet and zing. The ultimate lemon bar recipe with lots of tangy lemon flavor!
Steps to make Lemon bars:
- Preheat oven to 180°c fan and line a 22cm square shallow baking tin with greaseproof paper. If you don't have a square tin that's fine, you can use a round or oval tin or even baking dish like I did, you just won't get evenly shaped bars.
- Put 225g of the flour into a mixing bowl with 85g of the sugar. Cut all the butter into small pieces and add to the flour and sugar.
- Rub the butter into the flour and sugar using your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs and there are no pieces of butter left. Be patient, this will take 7-10 minutes but makes all the difference to the base.
- Tip the flour, sugar and butter mixture into the prepared baking tin/dish. Spread it out evenly and then press it down firmly all over. Then set aside.
- Into a large bowl put the lemon zest and juice. Add the eggs and gently whisk until combined. Add the remaining 200g sugar and gently whisk again. Then add half a lemons worth of cold water, I just put the water in my lemon squeezer to measure.
- Add the remaining 25g of flour to the lemon mixture and gently whisk one last time. If there are lumps of flour that's absolutely fine. Put this lemon topping aside for now.
- Put the base prepared earlier into the oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden. Be sure not to over bake. Take it out of the oven and then straight away pour the lemon topping mixture over the base. Do not let the base cool before putting the topping on.
- Put the tin/dish back into the oven for another 10-15 minutes until the top is just set and has a wobble. Remove from the oven and leave to cool before removing from the tin/dish. Once cool peel off the greaseproof paper and cut into bars.
The simple shortbread crust is delicious and easy to make. For the crust, cream the butter and sugar until light in the Lemon Bars. Lemon bars are a delicious treat, perfect for those hot, summer days, picnics, and barbecues. They are simple to make, and can be made using regular lemons, Meyer lemons, and even limes. Nice, substantial crust, just enough filling…perfect for summer!
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