Vegan Lemon Bars Recipes

The most unbelievable vegetarian Lemon Bars, created with simply eight ingredients and much of lemony lemon flavor! The buttery shortbread cookie crust is completely excellent.

If you're a lemon course fan, you may love these very little squares of sunshine. And whereas you’re at it, you would possibly need to undertake my vegetarian lemon cake, lemon loaf or one bowl lemon cupcakes. 

Vegan Lemon Bars Recipes

CAN I CREATE THESE LEMON BARS PROTEIN FREE?

I haven’t in person tried these protein free, however i feel it might work with a high quality all purpose protein free flour combine, like Bob’s Red Mill 1:1 Baking Flour. 

HOW LONG CAN VEGETARIAN LEMON BARS KEEP?

They will keep for a couple of week in a very lined instrumentation within the white goods. They conjointly freeze very well! The granulated sugar can soften into the bars tho', therefore add some recent once you need to eat or serve them.

INGREDIENTS:

Shortbread crust:

• 1/2 cup vegan butter, melted
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Lemon filling:

• 3/4 cup lemon juice from about 4 large lemons
• optional: 2 teaspoons lemon zest
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/4 cups full fat coconut milk, using mostly the white part
• 6 tablespoons cornstarch
• tiny pinch of turmeric, optional for color (1/8th teaspoon)

For serving:

• powdered sugar, for dusting the tops

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line an 8 by 8 inch pan with parchment paper, leaving a little overhang for easy removal.
2. Make the crust: In a medium bowl, add the mix together the melted vegan butter, sugar and salt. Add the flour and stir until combined. The dough will be thick. Press it into the pan with your hands, evenly and firmly. Bake for 16-18 minutes until the edges are very lightly browned. Set aside.
3. Make the filling: In a medium saucepan, add the lemon juice, lemon zest if using for even more lemon flavor, sugar, coconut milk and cornstarch + tiny pinch of turmeric for color, if desired. Whisk well to dissolve the cornstarch. Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves and the mixture thickens. (see photos in post above for reference)
4. Spread the filling over the crust evenly, using a spatula if needed to smooth. Bake for 15 minutes, then remove from the oven and let cool at room temperature for 30 minutes. Transfer to the refrigerator for an additional 1-2 hours, or overnight, until set.
5. Lift the bars out of the pan with the parchment paper, dust generously with powdered sugar and cut into 16 squares.
6. Leftover bars will keep for up to 1 week in a covered container in the refrigerator. They freeze well, too. Enjoy!

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