glass_icarus: (potluck 2)
just another fork-tongued dragon lady ([personal profile] glass_icarus) wrote2012-12-14 10:20 am

lemon bars!

To celebrate finishing my biostats final, I made lemon bars last night! I used 2/3 of this microwave lemon curd recipe* (discovered via [personal profile] musesfool) and my roommate and I threw together a haphazard crust using ~1.5c all purpose flour, a stick of softened butter, and some chopped nuts and dried fruit (okay, so it was really crushed/chopped trail mix *g*). This was more than sufficient crust to fill the bottoms of my 12-muffin tin; I really should've gone with the full lemon curd recipe though.

Anyway, 10 minutes of baking the crust at 350F, and then 5 minutes more after spooning the lemon curd on top, and voila:


*Prep and cooking time for the lemon curd turned out to be around 10 minutes, for real- and I spent probably half that time rummaging around for a makeshift measuring cup and failing to zest the lemons properly with our grater.
musesfool: key lime pie (pie = love)

[personal profile] musesfool 2012-12-14 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm no lemon curd expert, so the microwaveable one was sufficient for my needs (quick, and being mixed into other things), but I'd like to try a non-microwave version someday.

Anyway, those look lovely.