May 3, 2013 - Lemon Bars

Last night my family decided to have a cook out, so I thought I would bring a dessert.  I flipped through the book and found the recipe for Lemon Bars.  That sounded to me like a great dessert to have to go along with grilling out.

 

I started out mixing up the shortbread-like crust, pressed it into the bottom of my pan and put it in the fridge to set.  In the meantime, I started to zest and juice the lemons.  Anything lemon for dessert is always a win for me, and the smell of that zest and juice was amazing.

 

Once the crust had set, I put it in the oven, and while that was baking (which also smelled awesome) I started with the lemon filling.  I mixed everything together and got it on the stove top to thicken.  The crust finished baking, so that came out of the oven....

 

 

and just about the same time the filling got to the perfect thickness, so through the strainer it went...

 

and then it went onto the hot crust.



The pan went back in the oven until it was just about set, and just slightly jiggly in the middle.  After it cooled, it came out of the pan and was cut into squares.  These lemon bars were great.  The crust had a great buttery shortbread-like taste and consistency, and the lemon filling was delicious.  It had a great tart lemon flavor and soft, almost silky smooth texture.

I was very happy with how this recipe came out.  Although I must say that so far nothing out of this book has really disappointed!