Luscious Lemon Bars {Recipe}

If you don't know me and my family, we basically have dessert every night. It's been that way since I can remember, and it most certainly hasn't changed now that Brian and I live away from family.

So in light of us loving sweet stuff so much, Brian's stepmother gave me this recipe after Brian requesting it multiple times! It's super sweet, tart, buttery, and crumbly, it's truely delish!

Here is my tutorial of it, my first tutorial ever. Thanks to blogs like Picky Palate, How Sweet It Is, Comfy In The Kitchen, and many others, it makes a first tutorial a little easier by having a template to go off of, with the complete recipe at the bottom!

First off, the crust. Preheat the oven, then spray your baking pan liberally.

Mix your ingredients together. Its very dry, but its supposed to be. Pat into the bottom of your pan and cook for 20 minutes.

While the crust cooks, make the lemon part of the bars.

First, squeeze fresh lemons to make 6 tablespoons of lemon juice and grate the rind of 1 lemon.

Mix the lemon juice and rind with the other ingredients. {it will look like this}

Now its about time to pull out your crust. It will look like this...crusty and crumbly!

Next pour the lemon batter on top of the crust.

Then cook for 20-25 minutes or until it no longer jiggles when shaken. It will look similar to this

 {see that weird bubble that popped up when cooking?...it deflated right before I dusted}

Immediately dust powdered sugar over the top of the bars. Mine looked like snow!

Let the bars cool completely before cutting. You can stick it in the freezer/refrigerator to speed up the process.

 The bars fall apart really easily. I had problems with the crust sticking to the pan, hence 'grease liberally'.

Yummy, gooey, tart and flavorful!

Luscious Lemon Bars

Crust

2 sticks butter, slighty softened

1 cup confectioner’s sugar

2 cups flour, self rising

Preheat oven @ 350. Grease a 9x13 inch pan liberally.

Cream butter, flour and confectioner’s sugar. Pat in bottom pan. Bake 20 minutes.

Topping

4 eggs beaten

½ tsp baking powder

6 tbsp fresh lemon juice

2 cups sugar

1 rind of fresh lemon, grated

¼ cup flour

Mix all ingredients and pour over baked crust. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Sprinkle immediately with confectioner’s sugar and wait until cool to cut. For a tart flavor add more lemon juice. Makes 48 bars

Before we had our luscious lemon bars, we decided to grill some sirloin...take a look at this puppy I got from the local meat market. I spent $40 on 2 of these lovely sirloins. I had a gift certificate from the market, but when we have a big celebration, I will be buying meat from them again. It was some of the best sirloin I've ever had. 1 &1/2 inch thick.

We didn't even finish off the entire thing in one meal, are you crazy?! So Brian is on a job with the leftovers! We still have another one in the freezer for another day of grilling!

 Seasoned with salt & pepper and ready to go on the grill

 fresh off our grill...it was perfectly cooked

carmelized on the outside and nice and pink on the inside

 served with buttered potatoes and seasoned green beans

If you weren't hungry before, you probably are now, and so am I!

Time to go eat some leftover Beef Bourguignon for a late lunch!

Have a blessed day!

God Bless,

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