Florida lemon squares from Happiness Is Baking: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake (page 194) by Maida Heatter

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  • mamacrumbcake on March 17, 2021

    Although plain looking, these lemon squares a quite tasty. They are nothing like a traditional lemon square, which is lemon curd over a short crust. In contrast these have a creamy lemon filling sandwiched between a brown sugar oat crumble. The filling is very thin and almost disappears after baking; this is a thin cookie, not more than ½“ in total for all three layers. The crumble gives a nice crunch to these bars and the brown sugar goes well with the lemon filling. I think I added an extra tablespoon of lemon juice to the filling because it was not lemony enough for me. I also used a tiny bit of lemon paste ( ?-¼ teaspoon) to amplify the lemon flavor. Much easier than traditional lemon squares.

  • darcie_b on October 28, 2020

    I was confused by the recipe specifying unsweetened condensed milk. I think adding lemon juice to regular condensed milk would curdle it, so I used sweetened condensed milk. My family liked the bars, so even if this is wrong, it was wrong in the right way.

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