Lemon Slice Recipe
Servings 48 bars
Ingredients
Crust
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
Lemon Filling
- 4 large eggs well beaten
- 2 cups white granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 2 - 3 tablespoons lemon zest grated lemon rind
- 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
Crust
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, mix together 2 cups flour and 1/2 cup sugar.
- Cut in 1 cup butter with a pastry blender (or with a fork )as if for a pie crust.
- When butter is evenly incorporated and mixture is still crumbly, press into a parchment-lined cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with sides. I used an 11" X 17" pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 325° or until crust is just turning golden.
Lemon Filling
- In a medium mixing bowl, beat eggs well. Add in sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest.
- Fold in flour and baking powder.
- Pour/spread lemony egg mixture evenly onto hot crust.
- Bake an additional 25 minutes at 325° until bars are just turning golden.
- Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Cut bars into large squares and then in half into triangles.
- Dust lightly with powdered sugar.