Easiest Lemon Bars

Name: Easiest Lemon Bars
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 9
Ingredients: 150 g – Digestive biscuits; 75 ml – Melted Butter; ¾ cup – Lemon squeeze; 6 tbsp – Corn flour; ¼ tsp – Turmeric; 2 tsp – Lemon zest; 1 ½ cup – Granulated sugar; 1 ¼ cup – Milk; Powdered sugar for dusting

by Sugar Spice N Everything Nice

9 Pieces

45 min

After trying out Lemon Loaf from Starbucks once, we were kinda snooping around for a lemon dessert to share with everyone. That’s how we decided to try making Lemon Bars! Although we had never tried them before, the pictures looked delicious enough to nudge us into giving it a shot. Glad we did! It was easy to make and turned out pretty good.

We are not used to having much prominent lemony flavors in our desserts, so the experience was kinda new. The sour kick of lemon hits you first, then the sugar and the crispy bite of the base.

A bit about Lemon Bars

Call’em squares or bars, these treats are awesome year around and you can see them featured in bakeries and coffee shops. The history of lemon bars itself does not go as much way back as it has been for our other recipes. That being said, the main ingredients were used a lot during the Renaissance period. Lemons have historically been used for flavoring savory dishes as well as the main ingredient that goes into cheesecakes, custards and baked goods. Lemon custard was a popular dessert during this time as well and shortbread/cookie crumb base recipes were developed recently.

Now, even though the key components of the lemon bars were popular during the Renaissance, its assembly into a 3 layered dessert did not occur until the 20th century. Whoever came up with the idea of assembling and making this 3 layered dessert, his/her name never got put down in history. American cookbooks at the time featured date bars as the earliest examples of squares or bar cookies. So there’s a good chance that these might have evolved from earlier bar desserts such as brownies.

As they gained in popularity, variations led to new recipes, such as peanut butter bars, chocolate coconut bars, chocolate cheesecake bars, toffee bars, pineapple bars, almond bars, apple bars, and the seven-layer bar. So here we are with one of those variations.....our awesome Lemon Bars. Try out our recipe and see how it comes out for you!!

Easiest Lemon Bars

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Recipe details

Yield 9 Pieces
Time spent: Prep time: 15 Minutes Cook time: 30 Minutes Total time: 45 min

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F.
Crush the digestive biscuits to crumbs using a food processor or by putting them in a sandwich bag and running a rolling pin over it.
Add the melted butter to the crumbs and mix till combined
Line parchment paper on a baking tray or any oven-safe container and grease the insides with melted butter.
Add in the crumb mix to the bottom of the container and press it down with the palm of your hands.
Bake for 15 minutes.
In a saucepan, add lemon squeeze, granulated sugar, lemon zest, corn flour, milk and turmeric.
Put on medium heat and keep stirring continuously. The mix will start to thicken slowly.
When it reaches the consistency as seen in the video, take it off heat and spread it over the prepared base evenly.
Bake at 350F for 15 minutes.
Once baked, cool it over a wire rack for 30 minutes. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
Carefully remove the parchment paper from the lemon block. Cut it into small squares or bars.
Dust them generously with powdered sugar or get creative and try out some patterns!

Comments

Scr50746963 on Jul 12, 2021

Lemon squeeze? Digestive biscuits?

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- Sugar Spice N Everything Nice on Jul 13, 2021
  
  Yes, Lemon squeeze is just Lemon juice. I used the one that can be bought in stores that comes in the shape of a lemon. You can of course use fresh lemon juice.
  
  Digestive biscuits are biscuits like Marie gold or you could use Graham crackers.
  
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Jane Stanek Marti on Aug 25, 2021

Is corn flour also called “corn starch” or is it more like “Corn meal”?

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- Dani on Sep 04, 2021
  
  Corn starch
  
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