Lemon Bars
Recipe type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • Crust:
  • 1½ cup butter cookie, or ginger snap crumbs
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter
  • Filling
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • zest of one lemon
  • 4 oz. of cream cheese
  • 1 whole egg and 1 egg white
  • 4 tablespoons of lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Pinch of salt.
  • 2 tablespoons of flour
  • Powdered sugar to dust top after cooled.
Instructions
  1. Mise en place ~ Gather all ingredients
  2. Bring all ingredients to room temperature
  3. Preheat oven - 325°F
  4. Line 8-inch pan with parchment
  5. In a food processor whiz cookies into crumbs or place in a large baggie and roll over them with a rolling pin. Add melted butter; mix
  6. Press crumbs in bottom of pan; set aside
  7. In a food processor or mixer whiz sugar and zest until well blended.
  8. Add cream cheese
  9. Add one whole egg and one egg white
  10. Add lemon juice, vanilla
  11. Add flour, salt
  12. Bake about 18 - 22 minutes or until filling is lightly set.
  13. Dust top with powdered sugar after cooled.
  14. Garnish with strawberries or blue berries.
Recipe by Make Mine Lemon at https://www.makeminelemon.com/lemon-bars/