Categories: Baked Bars

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
• 1 stick butter, melted but not hot
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 tbsp flour
• 6 tbsp juice from fresh lemons (usually 2)
• 2 tsp finely grated lemon zest

Directions

1. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle positions

2. Heat oven to 325 degrees

3. Spray 8×8 baking pan with cooking spray

4. Fit 8×16 piece of heavy duty aluminum foil across pan bottom and up 2 sides as foil overhangs to pull bars from the pan

5. Spray foil with cooking spray

6. Mix flour, salt, confectioner’s sugar in a medium bowl

7. Stir in butter to form dough

8. Press dough into pan bottom (the bottom of a measuring cup dipped in flour helps)

9. Bake until pale golden, about 20 minutes

10. While pastry bakes, whisk eggs, sugar, flour, lemon juice and zest in a medium bowl

11. Remove pan from oven

12. Add lemon mixture and continue to bake until just set, about 20 minutes

13. Let cool in pan for a few minutes

14. Using foil handles, pull bars from pan and set on a wire rack

15. Cool until room temperature

16. Cut into squares and serve

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