Easy Super Lemony Bars
Easy Super Lemony Bars
Only five ingredients to make these lemon bars with amazing flavor! Super easy process you can make in under 60 minutes ... cool, slice and eat. Perfect, refreshing treat for any day or special occasion!
Easy Super Lemon Bars
Yield: 20 – 24 bars
Ingredients:
One Lemon cake mix
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 can lemon pie filling
2 tablespoons lemon juice, fresh or bottled
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Butter or baking spray for pan
Equipment needed:
Stand up or hand mixer
Medium and small mixing bowl
Measuring spoons
Wire whisk
Rubber spatula
13 x 9-inch baking pan
Small sifter or strainer
These bars are the best! I love lemon and so does my hubby and I needed a quick recipe to prepare something for a friends’ birthday gathering. I saw a few recipes using cake mixes for the crust and just happened to have a lemon one at home. I thought...”This will make a lemony crust too. What’s better than more lemon?” You can make your own lemon curd or pie filling if you want, but that takes too much time and has to cool. I chose to run to the store and buy a can... only 5 minutes away too. Grab your box, can and baking pan... (hey, that rhymes) and let’s bake!
Preheat oven to 350 F.
First is the crust prep! Place the boxed cake mix and stick of butter in the standup mixing bowl and turn on low for 1 minute. After butter has broken up, increase speed slightly and mix until butter is broken up (smaller than the size of a pea) and crumbly. Pour in a greased 13 x 9-inch pan and evenly spread on bottom. Using your fingers, pack down crumbs, as shown above.
Easy so far? Now to make the filling. Place contents of the pie filling can in a small bowl and add lemon juice. Mix with a wire whisk until evenly blended and smooth. Pour over top of cake mix crust and spread to evenly coat. Place on center rack of preheated 350 F oven. Bake for 22 – 25 minutes or until edges are slightly golden.
Remove baking pan from oven and place and allow to cool. If I’m in a hurry, I place the pan in a cool place for about 20 minutes, like outside on the porch in fall, winter or spring or the refrigerator. When pie filling is cooled to room temperature, dust with powdered sugar to coat surface. Sometimes more than one coat of sugar is necessary, as the powdered sugar often absorbs into the filling. Cut into desired sized bars. If taking outside the home I place on a platter with extra powdered sugar and bing a sifter to add more later too! Meal appeal is important. Go ahead and cut yourself a sample slice... bet you can’t eat just one! Don’t eat the whole pan...Enjoy!!