The Best Lemon Squares I've E'er Had!

Thanks thence much for all of your sugariness comments on Caleb's gallery wall. He got a kicking out of reading the post, too. Tonight we're headed out to practice a piffling photography for the terminal projection together with and thence at that spot volition merely live some accessory tweaking together with cleaning left to do. Woo hoo!

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks agone when some friends together with I posted well-nigh our favorite trends for Spring, I used my pretty novel mixer to whip upward my favorite lemon squares. I ever crave them this fourth dimension of year, together with unremarkably destination upward making them for Easter. So, I'd though I'd percentage today if you lot wishing to brand them for your Easter gathering too!

Lemon Squares
(recipe from Martha Stewart Kids Magazine, Spring 2004)

For the Crust:
12 T. (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, frozen
1 3/4 c. flour
3/4 c. powdered sugar
3/4 t. salt

For the Filling:
iv large eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/3 c. sugar
iii T. flour
1/4 t. salt
3/4 c. fresh lemon juice (about iv lemons)
1/4 c. whole milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9x13" baking dish, together with thence trouble amongst waxed or parchment paper.

For the crust: Use a cheese grater to grate frozen butter. In a split upward large bowl, whisk together flour, powdered sugar, together with salt. Add butter; stir until combined together with mixture looks crumbly.

Transfer mixture to baking dish together with press evenly onto bottom amongst your hands.

Chill crust inwards the freezer for fifteen minutes, together with thence bake until slightly golden, 16-18 minutes.

Meanwhile, brand the filling. Whisk together eggs, sugar, flour, together with tabular array salt until smooth. Stir inwards lemon juice together with milk.

When crust is finished cooking, pour filling mixture over the hot crust. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees together with bake until filling is ready together with edges are slightly golden brown, well-nigh xviii minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.

Grip newspaper together with elevator out onto a cutting board. Dust to a greater extent than powdered carbohydrate on piece of job yesteryear if desired together with cutting into squares. Just similar amongst brownies, I've constitute that a plastic knife makes an tardily build clean cut!