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Ina Garten’s Lemon Bars | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network



These easy-to-make lemon bars are a great portable dessert for a picnic!
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Lemon Bars
Recipe courtesy of Ina Garten
Total: 1 hr 35 min
Prep: 10 min
Inactive: 30 min
Cook: 55 min
Yield: 20 squares or 40 triangles
Level: Intermediate

Ingredients

For the crust:
1/2 pound unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 cups flour
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

For the filling:
6 extra-large eggs at room temperature
3 cups granulated sugar
2 tablespoons grated lemon zest (4 to 6 lemons)
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 cup flour
Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

For the crust, cream the butter and sugar until light in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Combine the flour and salt and, with the mixer on low, add to the butter until just mixed. Dump the dough onto a well-floured board and gather into a ball. Flatten the dough with floured hands and press it into a 9 by 13 by 2-inch baking sheet, building up a 1/2-inch edge on all sides. Chill.

Bake the crust for 15 to 20 minutes, until very lightly browned. Let cool on a wire rack. Leave the oven on.

For the filling, whisk together the eggs, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and flour. Pour over the crust and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the filling is set. Let cool to room temperature.

Cut into triangles and dust with confectioners’ sugar.

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Ina Garten’s Lemon Bars | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

39 Comments

  1. Deanne Williams

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  2. Deanne Williams

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  3. Journey

    The best part of this recipe is cracking eggs and whipping the shells at the camera mans forehead! 😂

  8. sean stanley

    I just love this hog she can cook her tail off and I don’t mean it in a bad way I love love barefoot Contessa♥️♥️♥️♥️ I just don’t trust a skinny winch🤣🤣🤣

  9. Raga K

    Just wondering if you ever make your food for helping the under privileged folks or homeless, you'll get a blessing.
    Always, feeding your rich friends for parties, which is fine but don't forget those people who will pray for you for every bite
    Of your food.

  15. J Lee

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    A little confused, after making the crust, they were placed in the fridge is that after it's baked or before baking . not quite sure.

  16. Isabel Barber

    Have been making lemon bars, {another recipe} and everyone said how good they were. Was watching Natasia one day and she was making Ina's recipe{she said it was Ina's recipe} Other recipe called for aluminum foil lining pan Always too done by edges. This recipe called for parchment lining and bake in a glass baking dish. Was beautiful when done. Took it to a dinner where a lot of friends have eaten my other bars…..so many of them came up to me and said how great they were and the best lemon bars I had ever made.My other recipe said make filling in same bowl as crust was made in without washing it. I did that with this. All I can say is it is the best one I've ever made and won't even be bothered with any other recipe. Thank you, Ina.

  21. Gabriel A

    These look amazing … but it’s all about throwing the eggshells across the kitchen that does it for me! 😂😍

  24. WhiteH422

    On her drop down menu link, it says bake CRUST for 15 to 20 minutes in 350 degree oven and let cool.

  31. GinaH8sGW

    The best lemon bars ever- I swear by these!!✨💯 (Also, you dont need a mixer, I do it by hand.😉)

  32. Angelique Ellis

    I made her recipe when I lived in Arizona, back in 2003. These bars are so lemony and delicious! I haven’t tasted a lemon bar since then, that even closely rivals the taste. In fact when I was in the hospital here in the Twin Cities, I made the dreadful mistake of ordering one for dessert. Ewww…lesson learned!!!😮

  33. adam laliberte

    Idk what I’m doing wrong, but I’ve made these bars to a T twice, and the filling doesn’t set, and the top gets a brown crust on the top (almost like a cake). And I doing something wrong?

  35. Glynnis Kunzler

    These are the best ever have made them many times, from your cookbook, I made your apple pie bars this weekend for a party for my husband, they were Devine.

  36. Ruby Redd

    Wjat a treat! I make these all the time, especially when I own 🍋 trees, 🥑, 🍊 🍅 , grow my own vegetable garden, and have 🐔 and 🐓 on my property!

  39. jacek paszkowski

    I made this it turned out nice, it needed more time in the oven but i tossed it out in the trash. It had wayyyy to much lemon. I should've used half of what she prescribed and half the sugar. She's crazy.

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