Luscious Lemon Bars
Ingredients
2 ¼ cups
flour, divided
¾ cup (1 ½ sticks)
Kowalski's Butter, softened
½ cup
chopped pecans
3 cups
superfine sugar
6
eggs
1 ½ tsp.
baking powder
¾ tsp.
kosher salt
¾ cup
Kowalski's Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice (from the Produce Department)
2 tbsp.
finely grated lemon zest (from about 2 medium lemons)
- Lemon Glaze (recipe below)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together 1 ¼ cups flour and butter until fluffy.
- Stir in pecans.
- Press mixture into the bottom of a 9x13" baking pan; bake in preheated oven until lightly browned (about 15 min.).
- In a clean mixer bowl, beat superfine sugar, remaining flour, eggs, baking powder, salt, juice and zest on medium speed for 2 min.
- Pour lemon filling over crust; continue baking until filling is set (28-32 min.).
- Remove from oven; cool completely.
- Frost bars with lemon glaze; cut into squares for serving.
LEMON GLAZE: In a clean mixing bowl, combine 1 ½ cups sifted confectioners' sugar, 2 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 1 medium lemon), 1 tbsp. softened Kowalski's Butter and ¼ tsp. Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract until smooth.
