One of my favourite things about blogging, is the beautiful friendships I have developed with many lovely ladies along the way – amazing women whom I never would have met otherwise. A couple of weeks ago when the very talented Dannielle from Zamamabakes was driving from all the way down the coast to come and visit, I had to make sure there were some yummy treats to help make her journey worthwhile!
After some miscalculation with our weekly fruit and veggie order (totally all my fault), we’d ended up with around 2 kilos of lemons sitting in the fruit bowl begging to be used. After making my usual go to lemon recipes – No Bake Lemon Slice and Lemon and Coconut Cake, I was keen to tray something a little bit different as well as make a bigger dent in my pile of lemons.
I came across this recipe for Lemon Bars in an old footy club recipe book, which was also full of a heap of other recipes I can’t wait to try. I was a little uncertain how this was going to turn out – especially when it came time to sprinkle the extra dough over the top, but when the slice came out of the oven I was pleasantly surprised.
We spent most of our time chatting away, and only briefly paused to refuel in order to keep up our energy for talking so I didn’t really get a chance to stop and enjoy these. My husband however had plenty of time to taste these easy Lemon Bars and enjoy after taking the remaining slice to work, his verdict? A winner.
Lemon Bars
Ingredients
- Base
- 1 cup of self raising flour
- 1/2 cup of caster sugar
- 60 g of butter
- 1 egg
- Filling
- 1/4 cup of lemon juice
- 1/2 cup of caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 60 g of butter
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line a slice tin with baking paper - make sure you leave plenty of paper hanging over the sides to remove the slice easily from the tin.
- To make the base - sift the flour into a bowl before adding the sugar and stirring to combine.
- Rub in the butter and then add the egg to form a smooth soft dough.
- Place approximately 2/3 of the dough to cover the base of the lined baking tin.
- To make the filling
- Place the lemon juice, caster sugar, egg and butter into a small saucepan and cook over a low heat until the ingredients have all combined and the mixture has thickened.
- Pour the hot lemon filling over the dough and then crumb the remaining dough over the top.
- Place the Lemon Bars into your oven and cook for 25 minutes or until the top of your slice is a lovely golden brown.
- Allow slice to cool in the tin before carefully removing - using the overhanging baking paper. Cut into squares and enjoy!
Easy Lemon Bars Thermomix Instructions
1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line a slice tin with baking paper – make sure you leave plenty of paper hanging over the sides to allow easy removal of the slice from the tin.
2. Place the flour, sugar and butter into your Thermomix Bowl and mix for 10 seconds on speed 9 or until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
3. Add the egg and mix for 15 seconds on speed 5 or until a dough has formed.
4. Place approximately 2/3 of the dough (enough to cover the base) into the tin and gently flatten the surface.
5. To make the lemon filling, insert your butterfly and place all of the ingredients for the filling into a clean bowl before cooking for 12 minutes, 55 degrees, speed 3.
Continue as above from step 7.
To make these easy Lemon Bars just that little more special, dust them with icing sugar just before serving.
Enjoy!
What is your favourite lemon recipe?
Sammie @ The Annoyed Thyroid says
I love anything with lemons and this looks super delicious! My favourite is a Lemon Yoghurt Cake – it’s just lemonicious!
laurenm83 says
Lemon Yoghurt Cake is a favourite of mine too – so delicious!
mummywifeme says
Lauren, these look just so delicious. I am a huge fan of lemons. I will definitely have to bake these. Meanwhile, we made your rice bubble bars on the weekend and the girls loved them. (I’ve also been there and done that with accidentally over ordering. I ended up with four bags of tomatoes once!) I think it’s lovely you ladies have formed a strong friendship. Isn’t our blogging community awesome?! xx
laurenm83 says
Our community really is the best Renee – so glad I have ‘found’ you too. I’m glad the girls liked the rice bubble bars – at least there was no dry retching this time 😉
Jody at Six Little Hearts says
These are delicious! I have made them before – thanks for reminding me to make them again!
laurenm83 says
Glad I could help Jody!
Ai Sakura says
lemon bars and tea goes so well together I think!
So nice to hear that you got to meet a bloggy friend..I love it when online talks turn to stronger friendships offline 🙂
Ai @ Sakura Haruka
laurenm83 says
It’s the perfect combination I think 🙂
Emily @ Have A Laugh On Me says
I’m with you on the great friendships blogging has given me. So glad you’ve made such a special connections lovely x
laurenm83 says
It really is amazing just how many wonderful people we get to meet – that includes you too lovely lady x
Malinda @mybrownpaperpackages says
What a great catch up you two must have had. And this looks delicious, I love lemon flavoured desserts.
laurenm83 says
It was really lovely Malinda, topped off by a yummy lemon dessert 🙂
Bec @ The Plumbette says
You are one of my fave connections through blogging! 🙂 these lemon bars look delicious! I’ve started a new 30 day diet so I will bake these after I’ve finished. I can’t trust that I will have the willpower to withhold inhaling them!
laurenm83 says
Oh you are too sweet lovely Bec – right back at you! Good luck with the diet xx
Née says
Yumbo! Am going to try this with our latest harvest of limes.
laurenm83 says
Ooh, this would be lovely made with limes!
EssentiallyJess says
Oh I need to make these. Anything with lemon is amazing.
Dannielle from Zamamabakes says
Oh you are a sweetheart Lauren. My journey was well and truly worthwhile even if there hadn’t been your delicious baking (but we did need our energy as you say, hehe), you are a wealth of information, a great mentor and a beautiful, generous lady who deserves every bit of success possible.
I feel so fortunate to have found such gorgeous friends through this blogging world, as you say there are so many amazing women we would never have met otherwise.
Looking forward to more great times ahead.
How did you know I love lemons so much? xx
Janet aka Middle Aged Mama says
My favourite lemon recipe is called Lemon Tingle Slice. I can’t remember off the top of my head but I think it might be a no bake one. All I know is it’s YUMMY!
Visiting today from #teamIBOT x