Dessert

BEST LEMON SQUARES is for Dessert, Snack.

BEST LEMON SQUARES takes 20 minutes to prepare.

BEST LEMON SQUARES takes 40 minutes to cook.

BEST LEMON SQUARES makes 16 servings.

The ingredients for BEST LEMON SQUARES are:

CRUST:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 stick (8 tbs) butter, melted but not hot

FILLING:
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 TBS all-purpose flour
6 TBS juice from 2 lemons
2 tsp finely grated lemon zest

Here is how you make BEST LEMON SQUARES:

Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Spray an 8 x 8 baking pan with vegetable oil spray. Fit an 8 x 16 piece of heav-duty foil across pan bottom and up the 2 sides as foil overhangs to pull bars from pan. Spray foil with vegetable oil spray.Mix flour, salt, confectioner's sugar in a medium bowl; stir in butter to form dough. Press dough into pan bottom (the bottom of a measuring cup dipped in flour helps). Bake until pale golden, about 20 minutes. While pastry bakes, whisk eggs, sugar, flour, lemon juice and zest in a medium bowl. Remove pan from oven, add lemon mixture and continue to bake until just set, about 20 minutes longer; let cool in pan for a few minutes and then using foil handles, pull bars from pan and set on a wire rack. Cool until room temperature. Cut into squares and serve.Serving Size:?16 small squaresNumber of Servings: 16Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user DCONNER6.

The nutritional information for BEST LEMON SQUARES is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 16
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 140.3

• Total Fat: 6.5 g
• Cholesterol: 38.4 mg
• Sodium: 71.6 mg
• Total Carbs: 19.6 g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.2 g
• Protein: 1.7 g