Lemon Bars part 2 :D Woot! #2 is done!

Ok! So I finally got my lemon bars out! :D Not exactly in this weekly's order but who's counting right? This time a bought a real 9 x 9 brownie/cake pan and made them in there! :) The bars came out so much better this time around! I didn't have to fight with them to get them out of the pan and the texture was nice and even through out! Not as porous and bubbly like last time. I even coated them with confectioner's sugar and they looked and tasted even yummier than last time!

The recipe  that I used came from this page

" Cooking Done Light "
and here are the ingredients:

1/4 cup confectioners’ (powdered) sugar
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
3 eggs
scant 3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons freshly grated lemon zest
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
additional confectioners’ sugar, for dusting.

 If you want the actual directions please feel free to go to the website listed above. :) Thank you for these awesome lemon bars!!! I think they will be a family household staple! hehe. Now I just need to do them a couple dozen times and get them down packed so that I'm not looking at the recipe on a piece of paper all the time !! I kinda still wish I bought a Chumby to place on my kitchen counter so I could view recipes on it. Unfortunately in reality its not that practical for that use.. I'd prob get it messed up and dirty with little bits of lemon peel stuck on it and we don't want to do that to poor Chumby now do we? No we don't.. The text would probably be too small on it anyway... Oh! side note, I need to buy another 9 x 9 pan. These babies don't last a full day lol!!

Time to make more low fat Lemon Bars!

So last week I was on a quest to make low fat lemon bars! Actually the truth is I had been wanting to make them for the longest time because about several months ago I was watching Paula Deen on the Food Network and she was making these super decadent Lemon bars bursting with butter and well, they looked so good. Then about a month a go I saw Giada de laurentiis making some lemon bars and well, that sealed the deal! It was like the lemons were screaming out at me " Make us into bars!! Maaaaaakeeee Ussss!".

Gosh I make them sound like evil little lemons don't I? Well, they are evil if they tempted me to make them into bars! So far, I must say, this is the only recipie/dish I have had the urge to reeeeeaally make twice! They call to me!

All the yummy ingredients :)

Ok so getting back to the bars, I wanted to make lemon bars that were low in fat because usually they are not low cal and I could stand to loose several pounds so after much searching the internet for the perfect recipe, I found it at the blog "Cooking done light".  Here is the link to her Low Calorie Lemon Bars!




I still can't believe these bars are only 66 Calories! That's nothing! I could eat like three of these and not feel guilty! They are so rich in lemony flavor goodness that you don't even realize that they are low fat~! These guys were so good that they were all gone by the following morning :)  (Not all by me, don't worry) My only gripe about them is that I need to buy a normal 8" x 8" pan as the recipe states because I used an individual brownie portion pan and it was a bit hard to get these guys out since the bottom of the bars were so crumbly. I think it would be easier to get them all out as as a whole and cut them in an even pan. So that's the plan today! I'm going to target to get a new brownie/cake pan! :D I think I'm going to need some new cabinets or storage for all the baking things I'm going to eventually want to get :)

The Finale!