Lemon Bars To Go
Lemon Bars To Go | The perfect take along treat. Hand these to go desserts to your guests as they leave, add them to your dessert table, give as a hostess gift, teachers gift or take for lunch! Whatever you decide to do I know this dessert will be loved by all! Scroll down to see my new twist on the crust. You’re going to LOVE it!
Instead of the traditional crust I used my favorite oatmeal cookie recipe as the base for the crust. So now you get TWO treats in one! The tart goodness from the lemon and a soft delicious cookie at the bottom.
Lightly add oatmeal cookie crust; bake.
Add filling and bake.
Lemon Bars To-Go
Yield:
Makes 10- 4 ounce Jars
Prep Time:
30 minutes
Cook Time:
19 minutes
Total Time:
49 minutes
Ingredients
For the Oatmeal Cookie Crust:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
For the Lemon Filling:
- 4 eggs
- 1-1/2 cups white sugar
- zest of 3 lemons
- 2/3 cups lemon juice (3 lemons)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 5 tablespoon all-purpose flour
Instructions
For the Oatmeal Cookie Crust:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Beat butter and sugars until fluffy. Add egg, beating until combined.
- Combine flour, oats, and baking powder.
- Gradually add to butter mixture; beat until combined.
- In 10-4 ounce jars spoon crust into jars and lightly press.
- Place jars on a cookie sheet for easy handling.
- Bake for 12 minutes. This is just to start the baking process for the crust it will complete baking when the lemon filling is added.
- While the crust is baking make your filling.
For the Lemon Filling:
- Whisk together the sugar and eggs in a medium saucepan.
- Add the lemon zest, lemon juice, butter and flour.
- Whisk together constantly over medium low heat until slightly thickened and warm (just to a boil).
- Carefully pour over baked crust.
- Bake an additional 7 minutes or until the edges are set, but the center still moves slightly when jiggled.
- Allow to cool completely and dust with confectioners sugar.
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That look delicious! What great pictures. Come visit us today. We are giving away 3 wonderful charm bracelets from Cutey. They are terrific.
They look delicious! : )
This looks sooo yummy! I love lemon. I’d love for you to share them at my link party. It runs Tues-Sat. http://adventuresofadiymom.blogspot.com/2012/03/terrific-tuesday-7.html
Rachel
Love this recipe, beautiful presentation too!
Oh I love this idea…so so cute! I would make these for a birthday party…less mess!
I love these. I am going to pin them on my recipe board. I love anything lemon and I love the way you’ve baked and served them in the small jars. Thanks for sharing this.
Such a cute idea! Pinned! 🙂
I love Lemon!!! Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you so much for sharing your great recipe with Full Plate Thursday. Hope you are having a great Spring week end and come back to see me real soon!
Miz Helen
Oh my gosh, this is awesome!! Anything lemon is my absolute favorite and I’m going to be making these SOON! Thank you so much for linking up!
Thks for sharing this wonderful recipe 🙂
Oh my goodness these look so delicious i think i just drooled on my keyboard.
Hi!
I’d love it if you’d stop by and link these up to A Themed Bakers Sunday! The theme this week is anything Citrus!
Hope to see you there!
Thank you so much for linking up to Your Whims Wednesday, I featured this on my blog tonight! Come stop by and grab a featured button 🙂 http://www.mygirlishwhims.com/2012/03/your-whims-wednesday-52-and-features.html
These look yummy. Just found your blog its so fun.. Come and check out my blog
http://www.thedailysmash101.blogspot.com
Have a great day
Where did you get your jars from?
Hi Charlotte,
I found the jars at Target on the shelf under the wall of utensils. 🙂
Wow, these look delicious! I love lemon anything. I go to lunch with some friend each month. We don’t order dessert so I usually make something fun a wrap it cute for them to take home. This is perfect. Thanks.
Can you use old fashioned oars for recipe and will it keep if I seal the njars shopping over seas to a solider?
Hi Emma, Yes, you can use old fashioned oats. I don’t recommend shipping this dessert overseas. The lemon custard needs to be refrigerated.