Lime Bars
 
 
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Serves: Makes 16 small bars
Ingredients
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter, melted but not hot
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1½  tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 6 tablespoons juice and 2 teaspoon finely grated zest from 2 limes
  • 1 drop (and not a drop more) green food coloring
Instructions
  1. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Spray an 8- by 8-inch baking pan with vegetable cooking spray. Fit an 8-inch by 16-inch piece of heavy-duty foil across pan bottom and up the 2 sides as foil overhangs to pull bars from the pan. Spray foil with vegetable cooking spray.
  2. Mix flour, salt, and confectioner’s sugar in a medium bowl; stir in butter to form dough. Press dough into pan bottom (the bottom of a measuring cup dipped in flour helps). Bake until pale golden, about 20 minutes.
  3. While pastry bakes, whisk eggs, sugar, flour, lime juice and zest, and food coloring in a medium bowl.
  4. Remove pan from oven. Add lime mixture and continue to bake until just set, about 20 minutes longer; let cool in pan for a few minutes and then using foil handles, pull bars from pan and set on a wire rack. Cool until room temperature. Cut into squares and serve.
Recipe by Three Many Cooks at https://threemanycooks.com/recipes/sweet-treats/lime-bars/