Lemon Bars

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Title: Lemon Bars
Categories: bar, cookies
Yield: 24 servings

Cookie Base:
1 c unsalted butter; melted
1/2 c powdered sugar
2 c unbleached allpurpose flour
Lemon Filling:
2 c sugar
4 tb unbleached allpurpose flour
1/2 ts baking powder
4 eggs
6 tb fresh lemon juice
1/2 ts fresh lemon rind

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together butter, powdered sugar and flour
until well blended.
Press mixture into the bottom of a 9x13-inch glass baking dish. Bake for 20
minutes.
Sift together sugar, flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add eggs,
lemon juice and
lemon rind. Beat by hand or with electric mixer until well blended. Pour
mixture over crust and
bake for 25 minutes.
Allow bars to cool, then dust with powdered sugar and cut into squares.
Yield: 24 Lemon Bars


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Contributor: BAKERS' DOZEN (BETH SETRAKIAN) SHOW #BD1A09
Preparation Time: 0:00
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