Lemon Bars

My Uncle loves these Lemon Bars, and I am sure that your family will too. So bake them along with me!

I used this recipe: http://www.joyofbaking.com/LemonBars.html, I really like the way they talk about the ingredients and the item in the descriptions before the recipe on this website.


I started with these quality ingredients:


I started by creaming together the butter and sugar:


After adding the flour and salt, I pressed the dough into the bottom a new pan I just bought - a beautiful 8x8 glass oven-ready Pyrex dish.

I cooked it at 350 degrees for 19 minutes and snapped this photo while it cooled on the wire rack:


While the crust was in the oven, I zested my lemons:


And then I juiced them by hand. I poured the juice through a fine strainer into the measuring cup to remove any seeds or pulp.


I creamed the sugar and eggs together, however I did not take a photo of this. I used Speed 6 for just under a minute. I added the lemon juice and zest and used the Stir Speed for only 20 seconds or so. I scraped the sides of the bowl and added the flour:


I folded the flour in by hand. This is my favourite, mystifying baking word. "Fold in..." my KitchenAid cookbook has a glossary of cooking terms in the back and I learned early on that it is fairly literal. I gently turned the batter until the flour was well disbursed.

I then poured it over the semi-cooled crust:


And after 19 more minutes in the oven, the filling was set and looked perfect. I cooled them on the wire rack overnight.

In the morning I cut them into 16 squares and they came easily out of the glass pan. I dusted them with sifted confectioner's sugar, and boy do they ever look tasty!