How to Make Lemon Bars - Easy Lemon Bars Recipe
Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor.
Today I am going to show you how to make Lemon Bars, mmm yummy; Lemon bars are really easy
to make just a handful of ingredients, packed with lemony goodness, oh yeah, let's get baking.
First let's preheat our oven to 350 degrees F. Next let's go ahead and take one cup of
butter, unsalted, and put it in there.
One half cup of granulated sugar, you could also use powdered sugar for this, all right
let's go ahead and cream this together, I am going to get some of this butter out of
here, scrape the sides, and now I am going to add two cups of all-purpose flour.
And I am going to do about a half of it at a time.
Okay it is going to get really crumbly like that, scrape the sides, you can also do this
in a food processor if you like, works really well, to get everything mixed together.
All right, now when you are done it is going to look all crumbly like this, the butter
has been incorporated with the flour.
Now we are going to transfer this over to a 13 by 9 pan and I have mine lined with aluminum
foil, the foil works great or you can do parchment paper.
We are going to go ahead and pour this all in there, and now with our fingers, hands,
go ahead and push it down in there okay.
Also what I like to do is I have a pastry roller here, you don't have to do this it
is not necessary, but I like to come in here, it helps to even it out a little bit.
Just go in on your sides and push down, once you have it all nice and pushed down we want
to bake this in the oven for somewhere between 15 to 20 25 minutes until it gets nice and
golden brown on top.
Then what we are going to do is we will take it out and let it sit and cool for about 5
to 10 minutes.
All right I took this out of the oven it is nice and lightly golden brown on top.
And now what I am going to do is set that aside and let it cool some more, and while
that is cooling, I am going to grab a bowl, and I have 4 eggs, and I am going to go ahead
and crack them, and then we are going to, okay and then with a whisk let's go ahead
and whisk these up, and beat them really well.
Once your eggs are nice and beat together, I am going to go ahead and add 2 cups of sugar,
mix that up.
Okay and then the juice, fresh lemon juice, this was 2 medium lemons, about 1/3 cup of
lemon juice.
1 quarter cup of all purpose flour, and then optionally I have the zest of one lemon, it
is about a tsp. of lemon zest, and if you are not familiar with lemon zest, basically
you take a micro plane like this, and you just take a lemon and you lightly go across
this, and it will shave off these really thin shavings, and the lemon zest will add a little
bit extra of lemon flavor, it is optional though, you do not have to do it.
So let's go ahead and mix this together.
All right, now what we do, we take our lemon sugar mixture, let's go ahead and pour this
right on top, we will get it all in there.
All right, and now, we are going to bake this in the oven and 350 again, for 20 minutes.
All right when you take it out of the oven it will look like this, now we want to let
it cool to completely set for 2 to 3 hours.
All right once it is has cooled we are going to go ahead and lift it up, take it out of
our pan, nice and easy like that, and then just peel back the foil, it might stick a
little bit and pull a little bit off, but that is okay.
If you are that concerned with it you can also spray the foil before it goes in, but
not really needed, all right, nice.
And now we are going to cut it.
So what I am going to do is whatever size you want, about that size, you will have to
cut down a little bit firm to get through the cookie, all right and then we are going
to cut across this weigh, lift it up here, and I am going to put it on this board.
And then just take some confectioner's sugar, powdered sugar, just come in here and give
it a little tap, and there you go lemon bars.
All right our lemon bars are done, they look amazing, really easy to make, easy peasy lemon
squeezey.
See what I did there?
Lemon bars, lemon squeezey.
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