Easy Homemade Lemon Bars

My best friend, Bree, is pregnant and expecting her first child this fall. I’ve enjoyed going through this experience with her, including random texts and Snapchats of hormonal cries, nesting episodes, and of course, food cravings- which is how the baby earned the nickname of “Scoops”. A few weeks ago, out of the blue, I get a message that simply said- lemon bars. I guess when food cravings hit, they hit hard. So what is a best friend to do, but find my recipe for these Easy Homemade Lemon Bars.

When Bree and I went to Pawhuska and stayed at The Pioneer Woman’s Boarding House, we spent plenty of time at Ree Drummond’s Mercantile. The mercantile not only has plenty of shopping and delicious food, it also has a sweet little bakery upstairs on the second floor.

We both salivated over the different delicious baked goods on the other side of the glass case.

Cookies, cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, and muffins.

While I held off on buying any tempting treats (I had my eyes on our reservation later that night at P-Town Pizza and Ree’s famous garlic knots I heard so much about), Bree had her heart set on, you guessed it, these lemon bars.

This perfect summer time dessert, couldn’t be any easier to make.

Simply form the shortbread crust by mixing together the flour, sugar, salt, and butter and pressing into the bottom of the pan.

While the crust bakes, mix up the filling by combining more sugar and flour, with the eggs, and lemon juice.

Pour filling over shortbread crust, bake until set and then let cool.

Top with loads of powdered sugar and enjoy the scrumptiousness!