How to Make Perfect Lemon Shortbread Bars

Lemon Shortbread Bars. In a food processor, combine the flour, confectioners' sugar, and lemon and orange zest. Add butter; cover and process until mixture forms a ball. Lemon Shortbread Bars are the perfect spring or summertime dessert with a buttery crust, zesty lemon center, and sour cream topping.

These are classic lemon bars featuring a soft butter shortbread crust and a tangy sweet lemon curd filling that's baked to the perfect consistency. The lemon layer is thick and substantial, not thin or flimsy like most other lemon bar recipes. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. You can have Lemon Shortbread Bars using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lemon Shortbread Bars

1. You need of It has two steps.
2. Prepare 1 of . Shortbread cookie base.
3. It's 2 cups of Flour (sieved).
4. You need 1/4 tsp of Salt.
5. It's 1/2 cup of Powdered sugar.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of Vanilla essence.
7. You need 1 cup of Butter (salted / unsalted) cold.
8. Prepare 2 of . Lemon curd filling.
9. Prepare 1 cup of Freshly squizzed lemon juice.
10. It's 2 tbsp of Lemon zest.
11. Prepare 2 1/2 cups of Powdered sugar.
12. You need 1/3 cup of Flour.
13. You need 1/4 tsp of Salt.
14. Prepare 6 of Eggs large.
15. Prepare as needed of Green / yellow food colour few drops.

Stir in flour, cornstarch and salt. Making the crust of these classic lemon bars with melted (rather than softened) butter keeps it nice and crisp, in contrast to the creamy lemon filling. These elegant shortbread lemon bars are slightly tart with the vibrant flavor of fresh lemons in a perfect melt in your mouth bar. This family-size recipe is a wonderful way to enjoy the abundantly inexpensive lemons that are available right now.

Lemon Shortbread Bars instructions

1. For shortbread take flour salt sugar in a bowl mix it.
2. Add essence and butter (in cubes) beat with an electric blender.
3. Grease a 7" square mould and pour the flour mixture in it, level with the back of a spoon.
4. Bake it in a preheated oven at 180°C for 20-25 min then take out and cool down.
5. For lemon curd filling take sugar lemon zest in a bowl and mix it with a fork.
6. Add flour and salt.
7. Take eggs in another bowl. and beat.
8. Add flour mixture to the eggs and mix with a balloon whisk.
9. Mix lemon juice.
10. Pour this mixture on the shortbread base and bake at 180°C for 25 mins.

Lemon shortbread is an Irish favorite and a glorious mixture of butter, sugar, and flour. Add a little zing with lemon zest and these shortbread bars are taken to the next level of deliciousness. When made with creamy Irish butter, this recipe creates luscious, rich cookie bars. Combine all shortbread ingredients except flour in bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy.