Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Easy lemon bars

I wanted something sweet and I had a lot of cake mixes and cream cheese, so I did a search on All Recipes, and found a bunch of recipes for lemon bars. I ended up looking at a few and mixing them into 1 recipe and they turned out really good, so here it is.

What you need:
  • lemon cake mix
  • egg
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • lemon juice
  • lemon zest
What you do:
  • Mix the cake mix, egg and oil together. It'll be dough like, not cake batter like. I added zest of one lemon and a tablespoon of lemon juice because it didn't smell lemony enough to me. Put aside about a cup of this mix and pat the rest of it into an ungreased 9X13 pan.
  • Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
  • Let it cool.
  • This is very important, let it cool.
  • Beat the cream cheese, sugar and a couple tablespoons of lemon juice till smooth. It should be spreadable.
  • Make sure the bottom layer is cool before you try spreading the cream cheese mixture on top.
  • Spread the cream cheese mixture on top.
  • Take the dough you'd put aside and sprinkle evenly on top of the cream cheese mixture.
  • Bake for another 15 minutes.
Cut into squares, diamonds, octagons, however you like them best. They are delicious. If cut into squares, they make 24 servings and each serving is a 3 points plus value, for my Weight Watchers friends.

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