Coconut Lemon Crumble Bars. A 35+ yr outdated household recipe that mixes coconut and tangy lemon filling in a buttery crumble bar cookie. Freezes fairly properly too.
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Coconut Lemon Crumble Bars
Initially printed Dec 10, 2008.
These coconut lemon crumble bars come from a really outdated household recipe of mine. Nonetheless, I’ve usually seen them in native bakeries throughout Newfoundland.
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Recent lemon makes all of the distinction to the filling.
I’ve usually seen variations with out the coconut however we at all times had them with coconut in our household. Many individuals use a packaged lemon pie filling of their variations however I prefer to make my very own from scratch.
This recipe works properly with different citrus fruits like orange and lime as properly.
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Effective or medium minimize, desiccated (dried) coconut is greatest on this recipe.
Should you plan to freeze these cookie bars, for all crumble sort cookies, I at all times thaw them on a wire cake rack and by no means in a closed container.
There’s lots of humidity in some freezers that will get trapped inside and may begin to make baked items soggy as they thaw. My technique at all times avoids that downside for me.
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Coconut Lemon Crumble Bars
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Prep Time:
half-hour
Cook dinner Time:
45 minutes
Whole Time:
1 hour quarter-hour
Coconut Lemon Crumble Bars – a 35+ yr outdated household recipe that mixes coconut and tangy lemon filling in a buttery crumble bar cookie. Freezes fairly properly too.
Components
- 2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 cups dried coconut, medium minimize
- pinch salt
- 1 cup butter, minimize in small items
FOR THE LEMON FILLING
- 1/3 cup cake flour
- 1/3 cup corn starch
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 5 egg yolks, barely overwhelmed
- Zest of two massive, or 3 small lemons, very finely chopped
- Juice of two massive, or 3 small lemons
- 2 cups water
- 3 tbsp butter
- pinch salt
Directions
- TO MAKE THE LEMON FILLING mix the corn starch, salt, cake flour, sugar and water in a medium saucepan.
- Cook dinner over medium-low warmth till the combination thickens, stirring consistently. Take away from warmth.
- Pour about 1/2 cup of the thickened combination over the overwhelmed egg yolks and whisk collectively rapidly. This tempers the egg yolks in order that they don’t scramble.
- Pour this combination again into the pot and whisk it in rapidly. Return the pot to the warmth and stir consistently for a couple of minutes till the combination is thick and evenly clean.
- Whisk within the lemon juice and zest and take away from the warmth.
- Lastly whisk within the butter and put aside to chill when you put together the crumble combination.
- FOR THE CRUMBLE combine collectively the flour, sugar, baking powder, coconut and salt.
- Utilizing your arms or a pastry blender minimize within the butter till the it’s utterly integrated into the dry elements.
- Press half of the crumb combination into the underside of a 9 x 13 inch properly greased baking pan. Pour the lemon filling evenly over the underside crumbs. Gently sprinkle the remaining crumbs over the lemon filling and press down gently.
- Bake in a 350 diploma F oven for 40 – 45 minutes or till gentle golden brown in coloration. Cool utterly within the pan earlier than chopping into squares and serving.
Notes
Should you plan to freeze these cookie bars, for all crumble sort cookies, I at all times thaw them on a wire cake rack and by no means in a closed container. There’s lots of humidity in some freezers that will get trapped inside and may begin to make baked items soggy as they thaw. My technique at all times avoids that downside for me.
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Diet Info
Yield
36
Serving Measurement
36 cookie bars
Quantity Per Serving
Energy 173Whole Fats 8gSaturated Fats 5gTrans Fats 0gUnsaturated Fats 2gLdl cholesterol 42mgSodium 89mgCarbohydrates 25gFiber 1gSugar 15gProtein 2g
The dietary info offered is robotically calculated by third get together software program and is supposed as a tenet solely. Precise accuracy just isn’t assured. For recipes the place all elements might not be used completely, equivalent to these with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for instance, calorie & dietary values per serving will seemingly be considerably decrease than indicated.