The Glade 4.0

OK, so I like a really tart lemon square that's soft and gooey with more lemon than crust. And so here it is.

Gooey Lemon Squares

Ingredients
Crust
12 TBSP Unsalted butter, melted
55 grams sugar (2oz, ¼ cup)
1 ½ tsp Vanilla extract
½ tsp Salt
255 grams AP flour (9 oz, 2 cups)

Topping
670 grams sugar(1lb 7 5/8oz, 3 cups plus 6 TBSP)
80 grams AP flour (2 7/8oz, 9 TBSP)
9 large eggs
1 ½ TBSP lemon zest
1 ¼ cup strained fresh lemon juice
Powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions
Heat oven to 350
Line a metal 9x13 pan with foil
Crust
Stir melted butter with sugar, vanilla, and salt. Mix in flour. Press into pan and smooth surface. Prick with a fork. Bake 20 – 255 minutes, until cookie is brown.

Topping
While crust is baking whisk flour and sugar together in a large bowl. Whisk in eggs until mixture is smooth. Add lemon juice and zest, stir until smooth (will be very thin).

Reduce oven to 300
Pour filling into HOT crust and bake 25 minutes, until the middle jiggles slightly when you shake the pan. Cool completely. Cut into 1 ½ inch squares, then dust tops with powdered sugar.

Yield: 40 1 ½ inch squares, plus edges for nibbling.

Notes:
You could, of course, make 48 1x2 inch pieces, but they wouldn’t be lemon SQUARES, now would they?
The reasoning behind cutting before dusting is that cutting messes up the top, and the dusting hides it. So measure and mark, cut without separating, dust, then use a fork to lift pieces carefully to their final home.
I don’t recommend doubling this recipe unless you are doing it in two pans. A half sheet won’t cook evenly, and it’s really deep enough.

You taunt me, cruel baker.

Looks very yummy.

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There's something wrong with those lemon squares, and I can't quite figure it out.

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They aren't in your belly?

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Taamar is EVIL !!

They look like my mommy's

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Midgen, only because we know we shouldn't be eating them, and our resolve would weaken and we would eat as many as she put in front of us, no matter the consequences.

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There is no top crust.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Top crust is optional, as far as they are done out here. I've even seen them done without the sugar on top.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I've never seen a lemon square with a top crust, even in pictures.

Perhaps it's an east coast thing. Regardless, your recipe looks fantastic, and I have passed it on to my honey. I will apprise you of the results.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I lived on the east coast (Maryland) for years, and was an army wife surrounded by people from all parts of the country. I'm even searching online and can't find it, the closest I come is bars where the top of the custard is browned and forms a skin. Do you have a recipe I can try? Is it an actual second crust laid on top, or one of those magic crusts that forms itself during cooking?


EDIT:
Found one! Like this?

That's the one!

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I've seen and consumed a LOT of lemon bars. The only thing I've ever seen on top is some form of whipped cream/meringue type of thing, however most of them have been bare on top...

Seems like to me if you put a crust on top, it turns into pie.. and hey.. I like pie too!