Dessert Gallery Bakery & Café

INGREDIENTS

STEP 1 - CRUST

2 cups flour
½ cups powdered sugar
1 cup butter
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
⅓ cup FRESH lemon juice (no cheating!)
¼ cup flour
½ teaspoon baking powder

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350F.

Step 1 - Crust

Blend flour, powdered sugar and butter thoroughly. Press mixture into the bottom of a 13x9 pan. Bake for 20 minutes (watch closely towards the end so the crust doesn’t burn!).

STEP 2 - Filling

Beat eggs, sugar and lemon juice together. Add flour and baking powder, blending only long enough to incorporate.

Pour filling into baked crust and finish baking for 25 minutes until set.

Cool. Dust with powdered sugar before cutting.

TIPS OF THE TRADE

If you’re not going to use fresh lemon juice, DON’T MAKE LEMON SQUARES! (or any other lemon dessert for that matter!) You can change the look of a plain bar cookie just by cutting it into a different shape! For the MLB pre-game party, we cut all of the cookies into different shapes for a very elegant presentation: "Luscious Lemon Squares" became "Luscious Lemon Bites" when we cut them in circles with a 1-inch round cookie cutter…"Pecan Pie Bars" became "Pecan Diamonds" when we cut the pan on an angle instead of straight…"The World’s Best Brownies" became architecturally interesting when cut into triangles and arranged both lying down and standing on edge…and the Monkey Bars were cut into bite-size rectangles so there was an assortment of every shape on each serving tray. 

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