Best-Ever Lemon Bars

Name: Best-Ever Lemon Bars
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters butter, melted; 3 eggs, beaten; 237 milliliters 3 T. all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters lemon juice; 2 teaspoons lemon zest; 16 servings Garnish: powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 296 milliliters sugar, divided; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Best-Ever Lemon Bars might be just the dessert you are searching for. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 185 calories, 2g of protein, and 7g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 16. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. A mixture of lemon juice, eggs, sugar, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy.

Instructions

Stir together butter, 1/4 cup sugar, vanilla and salt.

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Vanilla

Butter

Sugar

Salt

Add one cup flour; mix just until incorporated. Press evenly into the bottom of an aluminum foil-lined 8"x8" baking pan.

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All Purpose Flour

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Aluminum Foil

Baking Pan

Place a rack in the lower 1/3 of oven.

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Oven

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes, until edges are golden and center is lightly golden. While crust is baking, stir together remaining sugar and flour in a separate bowl.

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Crust

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Oven

Bowl

Whisk in eggs; stir in lemon zest and juice. When baked crust is done, reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees. Pull out oven rack without removing pan; pour filling over hot crust.

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Lemon Zest

Crust

Juice

Egg

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Whisk

Oven

Frying Pan

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes longer, until topping is puffed at the edges and no longer jiggles in the center. Set pan on a wire rack; cool completely. Lift the ends of the foil; transfer to a cutting board.

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Cutting Board