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Everyone loves homemade lemon squares! These refreshing sweet and lightly tart lemon squares are Betty's Best.

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PREP TIME
10 Min
TOTAL TIME
1 Hr
SERVINGS
25

1: cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour

1/2: cup butter or margarine, softened

1/4: cup powdered sugar

1: cup granulated sugar

2: teaspoons grated lemon peel, if desired

2: tablespoons lemon juice

1/2: teaspoon baking powder

1/4: teaspoon salt

2: eggs

: Powdered sugar

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1 Heat oven to 350ºF.
2 Mix flour, butter and powdered sugar. Press in ungreased square pan, 8x8x2 or 9x9x2 inches, building up 1/2-inch edges.
3 Bake crust 20 minutes.
4 Beat granulated sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, baking powder, salt and eggs with electric mixer on high speed about 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Pour over hot crust.
5 Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched lightly in center. Cool; dust with powdered sugar. Cut into about 1 1/2-inch squares.

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Expert Tips

Grate only the yellow portion of the lemon; the white portion, or pith, is very bitter.

Rise to the occasion! Self-rising flour can be used in this recipe. (Do not omit baking powder and salt.)

To ensure recipe success, do not use vegetable oil spreads.

For a bright lemon color, add 4 to 6 drops of yellow food color with the eggs and sugar mixture.

One medium lemon should give you just enough peel and juice to make these refreshing bar cookies.

Make Lemon-Coconut Squares: Stir 1/2 cup flaked coconut into egg mixture in step 2.

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Nutrition Information:

1 Serving (1 Serving)

Calories 90

(Calories from Fat 35 ),

Total Fat 4 g

(Saturated Fat 1 g,

Cholesterol 15 mg;
Sodium 80 mg;
Total Carbohydrate 13 g

(Dietary Fiber 0g,

Protein 1 g;

Percent Daily Value*:

Vitamin A 4.00%;
Vitamin C 0.00%;
Calcium 2.00%;
Iron 2.00%;

Exchanges:

1 Fruit;
1/2 Fat;

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 12/18/2011 12:37:27 PM REPORT ABUSE drr5472 said:

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I am not much of a cook, but I love sweet/tart treats, and I have been making this since I got a Betty Crocker cookbook with trading stamps in the 1970s. I actually found this website because I googled "lemon squares" looking for a better recipe. This one is good with more lemon, and I consider grated citrus peel to be essential. It works with a quarter-cup of bottled lemon juice and grated orange peel in the crust if that is all I have in the house. I put the baking powder in the crust, as all it will do is neutralize the lemon and weaken the flavor if done as directed. I use salted butter in the crust, and I do add the salt to the lemon juice as it is necessary for the flavor. I rarely have confectioners sugar, and just use granulated, and can not tell the difference.

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Posted 9/10/2011 2:31:55 PM REPORT ABUSE ktiftickjian said:

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I have made these Lemon Bars probably ten times over the last two summers. They are a delicious summer treat, and they are gone the day I make them. The crust is great. I always add at least two more tablespoons of lemon juice than the recipe calls for, it definitely needs it. I recently tried to make these as tarts. I built up a tart shell using a small cupcake tin and followed the normal recipe. They turned out great as long as you can get enough filling in them!

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