Lemon Bars!

Mmm! Last week, I talked about how I made these lemon bars!

I had a big bowl of lemons and didn't know what to do with them and decided lemon bars would be perfect! I haven't ever had or made these from scratch before, so it was fun and definitely worth it!

Recipe:

For Crust

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup butter softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla (more or less depending on how much you like vanilla. I happen to love the stuff)
  

Blend together until its a good crust consistency and spread into a 13 X 9 greased baking pan. I greased my pan, layered it with foil and then greased the foil. Helped with serving and clean up! Bake the crust for 2o minutes at 350

For Filling

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• a couple of teaspoons of grated lemon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• more vanilla. so good.

Beat the eggs for a good five minutes on low-medium. Then add in the sugar, flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla. Slowly add in lemon juice and grated lemon. Do this for another few minutes..if you have a mixer, turn it on, break up a fight between your kids, sit down and read the mail, clean up a mess and then remember its still going.

Spread into warm crust and bake for another 25 minutes. Let cool.

Two options after this:

powdered sugar sprinkled on top
or..... this amazing frosting:

1 cup powdered sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice (i zested lemon in it too)
1 tablespoon melted butter (maybe...you might not need this ingredient. try it with the first two alone first)

mix until its a good frosting consistency, spread over lemon bars.

Mmmm!