These lemon curd bars are zesty, bright delicious and so easy to make. With just 5 ingredients, the lemon curd is encased in a crumbly, buttery shortbread.
Ingredients
- 295 g plain flour (all purpose flour) (2 ¼ cups/10.4oz)
- ⅔ cup white sugar (134g/~4 ¾oz)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 200 g unsalted butter cold (7oz) (divided 30:170g/1:6oz)
- 1 cup lemon curd (260g/~9 ¼oz/250ml)
For best results, always weigh ingredients where a weight is provided
Equipment
- Large mixing bowl
- Pastry blender helpful but not essential
- 8 inch square baking pan or dish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan forced) / 350F. Line an 8 inch square baking tin with baking paper.
- Melt 30g (roughly 1oz/2 Tbsp) of the butter, until just melted and set aside to cool slightly
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar and salt.
- Use the large side of a box grater to grate in the remaining cold butter, then gently work it into the flour mixture with your fingertips or a pastry blender until it looks a bit like breadcrumbs and is well distributed. You don’t need the butter to be completely worked in, just in very small pieces.
- Stir in the melted butter with a fork and your hands until well distributed and you can squeeze together a clump in your hand. It will still be a crumbly mixture.
- Set aside ⅓ of the mixture for later, and press the remaining ⅔ of the mixture into the base of the baking pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Let the base cool for 10 minutes, then spread the lemon curd evenly over the top.
- Crumble and scatter the reserved cookie dough mixture over the top.
- Bake for a further 25-30 minutes until just starting to turn golden brown on top.
- Cool in the tin for at least 30 minutes then you can leave it there to cool completely or transfer it a wire rack, using the baking paper to lift it out of the pan.
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Notes
- The butter must be cold before you start so that when you cut it into the flour, small pieces remain visible (like grain of rice size).
- Try my homemade lemon curd recipe - it's so easy and delicious, you'll never want store-bought again.
- Nutrition details are approximate only - scroll below the recipe to find the full nutritional information.
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