Easy lemon bars recipe

For anyone who loves the fresh flavors of summer, you’ll want to make these easy lemon bars! These fresh summer cookie bars with a lemon curd-like layer are impossible to resist.

Best Lemon Bars

As early as spring, I start to crave summer flavors and use lemon in many of my recipes. Lemon bars are the perfect recipe to make at this time of year. And in the fall, I still can’t quite let go of those summer flavors. For those who want to hold on to that summer feeling a little longer, or for those who just love anything with lemon flavor, you have found the perfect recipe.

I first came across the concept of lemon bars years ago on Pinterest. After trying several recipes, I finally created my own version. In this recipe, you make a layer of shortbread with a fresh, creamy lemon layer on top that is reminiscent of lemon curd. If you love lemon curd as much as I do, you will definitely approve of these lemon bars! Because you bake the lemon layer in the oven with the pre baked shortbread, it blends in with the cookie base, making it incredibly delicious.

Lemon cookie bars

Do you love lemon? Then these lemon bars are sure to please. The cookie base is shortbread, and on top of that is a creamy lemon filling that tastes like lemon curd, but is a little different in terms of ingredients.

For example, there is no butter in the lemon filling, but there is a good amount of eggs, which provide the binding and firmness. The result is a delicious lemon bar that is perfect for high tea, a picnic or as a dessert. Also great for bake sales with a nice glass of lemonade.

About the ingredients

You don’t need much to make these classic lemon bars, but sometimes when a recipe is easy, you’ll want to be extra sure if you use the right ingredients. So I’ll make a quick list of the ingredients for this lemon bar recipe.

• Unsalted butter: I always use unsalted butter for baking recipes. This way you can decide for yourself how much salt is needed in a recipe. And don’t forget: unsalted butter makes a perfect buttery shortbread crust for this recipe.
• Sugar: You need this for the shortbread and the lemon layer. I always use fine granulated sugar for baking. It dissolves quicker than regular granulated sugar and it gives the perfect structure to the end result. If you can’t find fine granulated sugar, it’s perfectly fine to use regular sugar. The fine sugar just has my preference.
• Flour: Also for the shortbread and a small bit for the lemon layer. You’re perfectly fine with all purpose flour for this recipe. You could use a gluten free flour if you want to make gluten free lemon bars, but I haven’t tested this myself. But I do know some of my follower did and were very pleased with the result.
• Eggs: For the lemon layer I used 4 medium eggs. A medium eggs weighs about 50 grams without their shell.
• Lemons: The most important part of this recipe. I just use regular fresh lemons, no need for special types of lemon. You will need the lemon zest and the fresh lemon juice of both lemons for the lemon layer in this recipe.
• Powdered sugar: For the finishing touch: sprinkle some powdered sugar on top of the lemon bars right before you serve them.

At last: all ingredients need to be on room temperature before you start making this easy recipe.

More Recipes with Lemon

As I mentioned before, I love to bake with lemon. If you love lemon bars, you will love my lemon curd! Everything is delicious with homemade lemon curd. I use it in a lot of desserts to, I really love lemon desserts.

Another delicious recipe is my perfect lemon loaf. I love this recipe and make it every summer, preferably several times.