These lemon bars start with a soften in your mouth shortbread crust that’s layered with a sweetly tart lemon filling and a lemony glaze on prime!
As a lot as I’ve at all times liked conventional lemon bars with powdered sugar dusted throughout the highest and a crisp crust on the underside, typically you simply need one thing totally different. And these bars? They put basic lemon bars to disgrace.
Sunburst Lemon Bars are probably the most wonderful lemon bars I’ve ever tasted and I’m so excited to share the recipe with you all.
A reader as soon as instructed me that the intense taste is harking back to stepping right into a burst of daylight. Dramatic? oh yeah, however these bars are worthy of it.
The Greatest Lemon Bars
Sure, I did simply name these the BEST. This recipe begins with a buttery, flaky shortbread that’s so good, I’ll fortunately eat it plain. To make the shortbread even higher, we’re going to prime it with a gooey lemon filling that’s candy and tangy and spoon-licking scrumptious.
Then, the literal icing on the cake is a lemon glaze to take it proper excessive. Sunburst Lemon Bars are like no different lemon bar I’ve ever tasted.
The video for this recipe is considered one of my favorites. Seeing my little boy’s fingers within the video and listening to his voice? That is really considered one of my favourite issues in regards to the work that we do. Additionally, Nate says for those who haven’t tried these bars but, they are surely “perfecto mundo.” With a evaluate like that, how are you going to resist?
These bars are a gooey candy twist on the basic, with simply sufficient tang from the lemon juice and zest to stability the sweetness.
We’ve been making these bars for a number of years now and each time I make them, I’m wondering why I waited so lengthy to make them once more. As a long-time fan of conventional lemon bars, I’ll admit now that I haven’t made a single batch of the basic lemon bars since I discovered this recipe.
I make numerous totally different dessert bars with fruit filling and whereas I get pleasure from all of them, from Apple Pie Bars to Pineapple Coconut Bars, Strawberry and Peach Cobblers to Blackberry Coconut Crisps, Sunburst Lemon Bars are close to the highest of the record of my private favorites.
I may eat one every single day and possibly not get sick of them (which is saying one thing since I don’t normally have a lot of a candy tooth).
Gluten Free Lemon Bars
This lemon bar recipe could be made gluten-free and with common all-purpose flour. My most popular gluten-free flour mix for this recipe is a mixture of brown rice flour, potato starch and tapioca starch. I’ve made and liked them each the gluten-free method and the common method many occasions.
Gluten-free lemon bars are an awesome dessert to convey to a celebration or gathering of any variety even for those who can eat gluten. Particularly as a result of these bars style higher than any “common” lemon bar AND the gluten-free people on the celebration will need you to be their new greatest buddy whenever you present up with an unimaginable dessert that they will get pleasure from too.
The recipe right here has been tailored from and with because of So, How’s It Style? and Pillsbury.
What makes these bars particular?
The lemon filling on this recipe is what actually makes these bars burst with taste. I exploit a greater than beneficiant quantity of recent lemon juice and zest to pack every bar with the tart and tangy style of lemon.
Should you don’t like your lemon desserts fairly so tart, be at liberty to cut back the quantity of lemon zest and juice within the recipe. I, nonetheless, like them simply as they’re.
The glaze on this lemon bars recipe actually units them aside from the gang. When the glaze units, it creates an attractive layer of pure candy further lemony goodness on prime of the lemon filling.
If in case you have any lemon dessert lovers in your life, you MUST make them these lemon bars. With some lemon desserts, I discover that the lemon taste simply isn’t robust sufficient for my liking. If I eat a lemon bar I wish to style the lemon firstly.
It simply doesn’t get any extra citrusy and lemony than Sunburst Lemon Bars, I promise you.
Should you love lemon desserts, you’ll wish to take a look at this Lemon Angel Pie, Lemon Crinkle Cookies, and this 5-Minute Lemon Curd. (I’m severe, FIVE minutes to excellent lemon curd. Make it now and you’ll thank me later!)
These Coconut Lemon Pudding Parfaits and this Blueberry Lemon Shortcake should be in your record of desserts to attempt as effectively. You’ll be able to take a look at all the Gluten-Free Dessert Recipes right here!
{initially posted 5/22/2013 – recipe notes and photographs up to date 2/17/22}
