Lemon bars
 
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This lemon bars recipe is easy to make with everyday ingredients and the bars are sweet and tart with just the right amount of lemon.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 1½ sticks unsalted butter, frozen
  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour, plus 3 Tbsp.
  • ¾ cup powdered sugar, plus more for dusting
  • 1 tsp. Kosher salt, divided
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1⅓ cups sugar
  • ¾ cup fresh lemon juice
  • ¼ cup whole milk
  • Grated zest of half a lemon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Butter a 9x13 glass baking dish and line it with parchment.
  2. In a medium bowl, grate the butter. Add 1¾ cups flour, ¾ cup powdered sugar and ¾ tsp. salt. Mix with your hands until crumbly. It does not need to form a dough.
  3. Pour it into the prepared baking dish and press into the bottom of the dish with your fingers. Bake until golden, about 18 minutes.
  4. Reduce oven temperature to 325F.
  5. While crust is baking, make the filling. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, 3 Tbsp. flour, lemon juice, sugar, milk and zest until smooth. Pour over hot crust.
  6. Bake until set, about 20 minutes. Cool in pan for about 10 minutes, then lift out and cool completely on a rack.
  7. When cool, dust with powdered sugar and cut into 2-inch squares.
Recipe by white plate blank slate at https://whiteplateblankslate.com/lemon-bars/