Simple Way to Prepare Speedy Sweet Lemon & Shortbread Bars

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet lemon & shortbread bars. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet lemon & shortbread bars using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Lemon & Shortbread Bars:

1. Make ready For the shortbread base layer
2. Take 30 g icing sugar
3. Make ready 100 g unsalted butter, at room temp
4. Make ready 125 g plain flour
5. Get Pinch fine salt
6. Take For the Lemon filling
7. Prepare 2 large free range eggs
8. Get 1 egg yolk
9. Make ready 180 g caster sugar
10. Take 80 ml Lemon Juice
11. Make ready 1/2 TSP Vanilla extract
12. Take 2 tsp finely grated lemon zest
13. Take 1/4 tsp baking powder
14. Get 2 Tbsp plain flour
15. Take Icing sugar for dusting

Steps to make Sweet Lemon & Shortbread Bars:

1. Grease and line with parchment a 8x8 inch baking pan.
2. Make the shortbread base layer. In a mixing bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and icing sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the flour and salt and mix gently until well incorporated. Break into pieces and press evenly into the bottom of the prepared baking pan. It may seem at first like it won't spread across the whole pan, but it will if you persevere! Pop the pan into the fridge while you preheat the oven to 180C fan.
3. When the oven is up to temperature, place the baking pan into the centre and bake for 20 minutes, or until the top appears matte and puffed, and the edges are just starting to brown. Meanwhile, make the Lemon Layer.
4. To make the lemon layer, in a clean mixing bowl place the eggs, egg yolk and sugar and beat on a medium - high speed until paler in colour, light and airy. This should take around 3-4 minutes.
5. Gently mix in the lemon juice, lemon zest, vanilla extract. Sift in the flour and baking powder over the top. Mix this in very gently until fully incorporated.
6. Pour this lemon mixture over the still hot shortbread, then return to the oven and bake for an additional 18 to 20 minutes, or until the top is set. Remove from the oven and place the pan onto a wire rack to cool completely. Once cooled, remove from the pan and slice. Dust with icing sugar just before serving.

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