Recipe: Appetizing Lemon Creme Crumb Bars

Lemon Creme Crumb Bars. In a mixing bowl, whisk together sweetened condensed milk, lemon zest, lemon juice, egg yolks and lemon extract until well blended. Pour mixture over crumb crust in baking dish and spread into an even layer. These Creamy Lemon Crumb Bars taste like a cross between a lemon curd bar and a lemon cheesecake bar sandwiched between the softest oatmeal cookie you've ever made.

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Ingredients of Lemon Creme Crumb Bars

1. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of flour.
2. You need 1 1/4 cup of oats.
3. It's 1/2 tsp of + 1/8 tsp salt*.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
6. It's 1/2 cup of light brown sugar.
7. It's 3/4 cup of unsalted butter, melted.
8. You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
9. Prepare 14 oz of can sweetened condensed milk.
10. Prepare 1 tbsp of lemon zest.
11. Prepare 1/3 cup of lemon juice.
12. You need 2 large of egg yolks.
13. It's 1/2 tsp of lemon extract.

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Lemon Creme Crumb Bars step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, rolled oats, salt and baking soda..
3. Stir in granulated sugar and brown sugar and mix until no clumps of sugar remain. Stir vanilla into melted butter and pour mixture over dry ingredients..
4. Sprinkle half of the crumb mixture into the bottom of a greased 8 by 8-inch baking dish and gently press into an even layer..
5. Bake in preheated oven 15 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside (leaving oven heated at 350 degrees)..
6. In a mixing bowl, whisk together sweetened condensed milk, lemon zest, lemon juice, egg yolks and lemon extract until well blended..
7. Pour mixture over crumb crust in baking dish and spread into an even layer..
8. Sprinkle top evenly with remaining crumb mixture..
9. Sprinkle top evenly with remaining crumb mixture..
10. Remove from oven and allow to cool at room temperature, once cool cover and refrigerate 30 minutes - 1 hour, then remove and cut into squares..
11. *If using salted butter reduce salt amount to 1/8 tsp.

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