Coconut Lemon Bars with Mimi!!!

Baking is so much more fun with a friend!  Mimi came with the idea and the lemon juice- the rest is history!

INGREDIENTS:

Crust:

• 1/2 c. butter
• 1c. flour
• 1/4 c. powdered sugar
• 1/8t. lemon extract
• 1c. shredded coconut

Lemon topping:

• 2 eggs
• 1c. sugar
• 4 T. lemon juice
• 1/4 t. lemon extract
• 3T. flour
• pinch of salt

DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Using a fork, cut butter into flour and powdered sugar.
• Add extract and blend well.
• Press into a 9×9 pan.
• Bake 10 minutes, add coconut over top, bake 10 more minutes.
• Combine all of the topping ingredients.
• When crust is done and still hot, pour topping over it and bake an additional 20 minutes.
• Allow to cool to room temperature, cut and serve!

My thoughts:  I’d never made lemon bars before tonight, so experimenting with these was a little challenging 🙂  They turned out wonderfully, but if you really like the creamy lemony part of bars you might want to double the topping.  Had a fun night with Mimi though- even Casper enjoyed our cooking experiments!

Mimi with our coconut lemon bars!

Casper begging for lemon bars...

Lemon kisses!!!!!