Bake Along #82 Healthier Lemon Bars

Craving for some refreshing sweet treats during mid week? Can't wait for weekend cheat day?
You can try this lemon bars. Portion controlled and healthier ingredients used giving you only about 75 calories per serving. How good is that? :)

Taste wise, you don't have to compromise too much. These bars are yummy, and simple to make too :)

 

 

 

Recipe is from Mind Over Munch

 

What you need:

 

For crust:

1 cup flour (I used unbleached all purpose flour, you can use oat or whole wheat flour)

1/3 cup brown sugar (or sweetener of your choice such as stevia or coconut sugar)

1/4 cup coconut oil, solid

1/8 tsp salt

 

For filling:

3 eggs

1 egg yolk

1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

1/2 cup caster sugar (I wanted to use coconut sugar but I didn't want to ruin the bright yellow colour and I don't really fancy baking with stevia so I stick to caster sugar)

1/3 cup flour (I used unbleached all purpose flour, you can use oat or whole wheat flour)

zest from 1 lemon

 

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180degC
2. Combine ingredients for crust using pastry cutter or fork til crumbly
3. Press crust into a greased baking pan and bake for about 12mins, til slightly browned. Set aside
4. Make the filling by whisking all ingredients til well mixed and then pour onto the cooled crust
5. Bake for about 20mins til the filling is gelled and cooked through
6. Cool completely and cut into 16 squares. Dust with sieved icing sugar before serving

 

As you can see there's some of the lemon filling managed to escape underneath the crust, hence a thin layer of the filling formed there making it looked like layered cake instead, I mean layered bar LOL

 

 

 

This post is for Bake Along, an event organised by Joyce from Kitchen Flavours, Lena from Frozen Wings and Zoe from Bake For Happy Kids