Citrus Bars (From My Great Recipe Cards)

Submitted by justmeterri

"These melt-in-your-mouth citrus bars are perfect for morning coffees or pot-luck meals when just a small taste of something rich and tart is desired. These bars are easy to pack in a lunch box for an added treat."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 3 dozen
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• 532.32 ml all-purpose flour, divided
• 118.29 ml powdered sugar
• 236.59 ml butter

• Topping

• 4 eggs, beaten
• 473.18 ml sugar
• 78.78 ml lemon juice
• 44.37 ml orange juice
• 4.92 ml lemon peel, grated
• 2.46 ml baking powder

directions

1. Combine 2 cups flour and powdered sugar. Cut in butter until mixture begins to cling together. Press into a 9 by 13 inch pan.
2. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
3. Beat together the eggs, sugar, lemon and orange juice, and lemon peel.
4. Stir in remaining 1/4 cup flour and baking powder, mixing together.
5. Pour over baked crust.
6. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.
7. When cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cut into small bars.

Reviews

[Cindi-Marie-Bauer]

These bars were very good! They had a nice lemony flavor to them. When making the crust, I accidentally added the 1/4 cup of the flour to the bottom crust, which gave these bars a slightly thick crust, so I had to use another 1/4 cup of flour when making the filling/topping. When making the filling/topping, I added the zest from 5 lemons, which was a bit more than 1 tsp. When the bars were still a bit warm, I sifted on the powdered sugar, which held nicely to the bars, as seen in the photos, plus I cut the bars when they were a bit warm as well, and the bars cut nicely. I got 24 bars from this recipe. Terri, thank you for these scrumptious, "melt in your mouth" citrus bar recipe, as they were very good!