Best 10 Sour Cream Lemon Bars Recipes

FROSTED LEMON SOUR CREAM COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9x13 inch baking dish with aluminum foil and lightly spray with non-stick cooking spray.
• In the bowl of stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla until creamy. Stir in sour cream and lemon juice until well-combined.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, lemon zest, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg.
• Slowly beat dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Depending on the strength of your mixer, you may need to finish stirring with a wooden spoon.
• Spread dough into the bottom of prepared baking dish.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until center is firm and edges just start to pull away from foil. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
• While cookie bars are cooling, prepare frosting. Cream together butter and 2 1/2 cups confectioner sugar. Add in lemon juice, lemon zest, half & half, and remaining confectioner's sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Add more confectioner's sugar as necessary to reach desired consistency.

LEMON BARS RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9x9 or an 8x8 pan with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
• Make the crust by creaming the butter with a hand or a stand mixer (fitted with the paddle attachment) until smooth. Add powdered sugar, flour, and salt and mix slowly until the mixture is crumbly but sticks together when you press it between your fingers. Press the crust into the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake for about 13 minutes, or until it just starts to get a light golden brown around the edges.
• While the crust is baking, whisk the eggs until beaten. Whisk in the sugar, lemon zest, salt, and lemon juice. Pour over hot crust, then continue to bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the mixture is no longer liquid in the center and it's lightly golden brown on top.
• Cool completely before removing from pan. Remove foil, then dust with powdered sugar. Slice and serve, dusting with more powdered sugar as desired.

CLAUDIA LAMASCOLO

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees and line an 8 x 8-inch square pan with parchment paper.
• Using a fork or a pastry blender, combine in a bowl the flour, sugar, and butter and mix until a crumbly dough forms.
• Press into the parchment-lined pan and bake 20 to 25 minutes until edges start to brown.
• In a medium bowl add the filling ingredients and just whisk until all blended together.
• Pour over crust and baked 25 minutes until the middle is set.
• Mix the sour cream and sugar together and spread evenly on cooked lemon squares and place back into the oven for 5 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• Cut into squares, cleaning the knife in between cutting rows, to keep from sticking.
• Store bars in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

THE BEST LEMON BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, blend together softened butter, 2 cups flour and 1/2 cup sugar. Press into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm and golden. In another bowl, whisk together the remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1/4 cup flour. Whisk in the eggs and lemon juice. Pour over the baked crust.
• Bake for an additional 20 minutes in the preheated oven. The bars will firm up as they cool. For a festive tray, make another pan using limes instead of lemons and adding a drop of green food coloring to give a very pale green. After both pans have cooled, cut into uniform 2 inch squares and arrange in a checker board fashion.

SHORTBREAD LEMON BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a food processor, combine the flour, confectioners' sugar, and lemon and orange zest. Add butter; cover and process until mixture forms a ball. , Pat into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake until set and the edges are lightly browned, 12-14 minutes. , In a large bowl, combine all the filling ingredients. Pour over hot crust. Bake until set and lightly browned, 14-16 minutes. In a small bowl, combine topping ingredients. Spread over filling. , Bake until topping is set, 7-9 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate overnight. Cut into bars just before serving. Store in the refrigerator.

LEMON CREAM CHEESE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray.
• Press 1 can crescent roll dough into the bottom of the prepared baking dish, stretching to the edges.
• Mix the zest of 1 1/2 lemons and juice from 2 lemons together in a bowl. Beat cream cheese and 1/2 cup sugar into lemon zest mixture using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; spread over crescent roll dough layer.
• Unroll the second can of crescent roll dough and layer over cream cheese mixture, gently stretching dough to the edges. Brush melted butter over crescent roll dough layer. Mix remaining lemon zest and 3 tablespoons sugar together in a bowl; sprinkle over butter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top is golden brown, about 30 minutes. Allow to cool for about 20 minutes. Lift dessert from baking dish using foil; transfer to a cutting board. Cut into squares, leaving on foil. Return dessert to the baking dish and refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour.

SOUR CREAM LEMON SHORTBREAD BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• For Crust:.
• In food processor, pulse together flour, sugar, lemon zest and salt. Add in butter (chilled cut into several pieces) and pulse until mixture is crumbly (with pea size chunks of butter remaining). Press evenly into a 9 x 13 inch pan and bake for 20 minutes, until slightly golden at the corners.
• While crust is baking: prepare filling, beat together all filling ingredients until smooth. When crust comes out of oven, pour on the filling while crust is hot and then return pan to the oven. Bake for 25 minutes, until set and lightly browned at the corners. Set pan on wire rack and cool completely.
• Makes about 16 bars.

EASY LEMON SOUR BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Generously grease bottom and sides of 15x10-inch jelly roll pan.
• Base:.
• In large bowl, combine first 5 ingredients, and mix at low spreed w/electric mixer until crumbly.
• Reserve 1 & 1/2 cups for topping.
• Press remaining crumbs into prepared pan.
• Filling:.
• In a small bowl, combine next 3 ingredients. Mix well. Pour evenly over base crust. Sprinkle with reserved crumbs. Bake at 350F for 20-30 minute or until golden brown. Loosen edges.
• Glaze:.
• In small bowl, blend powdered sugar with water and extract. Pour over warm bars. Cool completely, and cut into bars. Serves 48.

BEST LEMON BARS

Steps:

• Make the crust: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-13-inch or 9-by-9-inch baking pan, preferably nonstick.
• In a stand mixer or food processor, combine crust ingredients. Mix or pulse until well combined and moist clumps form. Using your hands, press mixture evenly but gently into prepared pan.
• Bake crust until edges and top are light golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Rotate once for even browning.
• Meanwhile, make the filling: Whisk all the ingredients together until smooth.
• Pour filling over hot parbaked crust and return to the oven. Bake until filling is almost set, about 20 minutes more. (Thicker squares, baked in the 9-by-9-inch pan, will take longer.) Start checking after 15 minutes; when you give the pan a gentle shake, filling should be lightly set all over and still quivery in the very center.
• Let lemon bars cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. Sprinkle the top lightly and evenly with confectioners' sugar.
• Cut into squares, diamonds or rectangles and remove from pan. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve. If desired, sprinkle again with confectioners' sugar just before serving.

LEMON BARS I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• To make Bottom Layer: Mix one cup flour and 1/4 cup confectioners sugar. Melt the butter and stir into flour mixture.
• Press flat and even into an 8x8 inch baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes.
• While baking, make the top layer: Mix 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, and the baking powder.
• Beat eggs and add to mixture, stirring well. Add lemon juice and rind, mix again.
• Pour over bottom layer; Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Cool a little, cut into squares while warm; dust with confectioners sugar.