Name: Strawberry Lemon Bars Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened; ½ cup powdered sugar; 2 cups all-purpose flour; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon lemon zest; 1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice, 5-6 lemons; zest 1 lemon; 1 ½ cup chopped fresh strawberries; 2 ½ cups cane sugar; 6 eggs; ½ cup flour; 3 tablespoons cornstarch; ½ teaspoon baking powder; ¼ teaspoon salt; powdered sugar for dusting

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Strawberry Lemon Bars Recipe

Strawberry Lemon Bars are made with sweet strawberries and tart lemons on a delicious lemon crust. It is one of my family’s favorite desserts and I like that it has plenty of vitamin C too! This Strawberry Lemon Bars Recipe is great for a bridal shower, birthday, or just to celebrate the sunny weather. They are super easy to make, check out our video and see for yourself.

Why You’ll Love these Strawberry Lemon Bars

Adding the tart taste of lemons to the added sweetness of good strawberries makes these the best strawberry lemon bars you have ever made. Baking it in a delicious crust and sprinkled with powdered sugar makes it even better. If you are sick of chocolate desserts, try this one for a change. It’s a great, refreshing dessert for warm weather or when you need a dessert that tastes as bright as it looks.

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Ingredients needed:

These are the simple ingredients you need for this easy recipe that your whole family will love, we love desserts with lemons and strawberries. For detailed directions and measurements, scroll down to our recipe card at the bottom of the page.

For the crust for the strawberry lemon squares:

Unsalted butter: Softened to room temperature.
Powdered sugar: Confectioners’ sugar.
Flour: We used all-purpose flour.
Kosher salt
Lemon zest

For the bars:

Fresh lemon juice: From five or six fresh lemons, depending on how big they are.
Zest of one whole lemon
Chopped fresh strawberries
Sugar: Granulated sugar.
Large eggs: At room temperature.
Flour: We used all-purpose flour.
Corn starch
Baking powder: Not baking soda.
Kosher salt
Powdered sugar: For dusting.

Recipe tips for making strawberry lemon bars.

Make the crust: Heat oven temperature to 320 degrees F and line a 9×13-inch baking pan with parchment paper leaving it to hang over on the sides for easy removal.
Beat the butter: In a medium bowl, beat softened butter with a hand or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
Add the other ingredients Right away, add the powdered sugar and let it mix in. Next, add the flour, salt, and lemon zest until the mix is crumbly.
Fill the pan: Next, pour buttery crust mixture into your prepared pan and spread with an offset spatula or wooden spoon. Press it firmly into the pan and make sure it is spread evenly.
Bake the crust: Then, bake your crust until it is light golden brown, for about 25 minutes. Remove the hot crust from oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Heat oven: Reduce heat to 300 degrees F.
Prepare filling: In the meantime, mix the sugar, strawberries, lemon zest, and lemon juice in a food processor or blender.
Whisk eggs: Next, whisk the eggs and add them to the blender.
Add dry ingredients: After, add the salt, baking powder, corn starch, and flour and blend until it is smooth.
Add strawberry mixture: Then, pour strawberry puree into the crust and bake at 300 degrees F until the middle is set, about 30 minutes.
Chill the bars: Remove strawberry lemon bars and let cool for an hour. Then, cover and chill in the fridge for two hours.
Serve chilled: Finally, lift bars from the pan carefully using the parchment paper before dusting with sugar and cutting into bars to serve.

Recipe variations:

Other fruits: This delicious dessert would also be amazing served with oranges instead of lemons for strawberry orange bars. Or try a different berry!
Tropical bars: Add ½ cup of ground coconut to the mix and sprinkle sweetened coconut on top for tropical lemon bars.
Extra zesty: To make them even more tropical, add pineapple and lime zests to your filling.
Classic recipe: To make regular lemon bars, omit the strawberries.
Oatmeal bars: Replace ½ cup of the flour with rolled oats to make strawberry lemon oatmeal bars. They make the perfect healthy and delicious breakfast or snack.
Strawberry Lemonade Sugar Cookie Sheet Pan Bars: Use sugar cookie dough as the base for the crust.
Strawberry Lemon Brownies: Want some chocolate with that? Use brownies as the crust layer!
Strawberry Lemon Blondies: A base of vanilla blondies can also be extra tasty.

Check out our strawberry lemon squares recipe video

How to serve strawberry lemonade bars:

These strawberry lemonade bars are a delicious twist to classic lemon bars. It does not have to be a special event to make these delicious treats. With a buttery shortbread crust and lemon filling infused with sweet strawberries, this is the perfect summer dessert. These bars are fabulous for almost any occasion, birthdays, baby showers, bridal showers, Mother’s Day, office get togethers and more!

Serve with a dollop of strawberry jam on top for extra berry flavor.
In fact, you could also top these with blueberry, raspberry, or blackberry jam.
Another great topping for these bars is fresh homemade whipped cream.
Only have a few bars left over? Mix them up and use as a crumble topping.
These lemony dessert bars would be the perfect accompaniment for lemon chicken or pork and lime fajitas.
Leftovers would also make the perfect base for a strawberry pie.

Frequently asked questions

Why are my lemon bars so gooey?

Make sure the center of your dessert is completely set when you take them out of the oven. They should only move a little bit when you shake the pan. If they are still jiggly, bake them for another few minutes until they do not jiggle when you move the pan. Also, make sure they are completely cold before serving.

Why do my bars smell like egg yolks?

Since this recipe has a lot of eggs in it, you should make sure you have enough lemon zest in the recipe and plenty of fresh lemon juice. If your lemon did not give you one heaping teaspoon of zest, you need to use a second one. You also need at least one full cup of fresh lemon juice.

How can I fix runny lemon bars?

The most common cause of runny bars is undercooking. Although it could be that you put too much of your wet ingredients in the mix, it is more often because they need to cook longer. To firm them up, cook them for a few more minutes and let them chill for four hours in the fridge.

How to store leftovers:

Do lemon bars have to be refrigerated? Yes they do. Keep leftover bars stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to five days.
Can you freeze lemon strawberry bars? Yes you can. If you cannot finish these in five days, wrap them in plastic wrap and aluminum foil and put them in a freezer bag or an airtight container. They can stay frozen for several months.
Thaw: Thaw overnight in your refrigerator before serving.
Reheat: It is not recommended to reheat these bars.

Recipe tips:

You could use frozen strawberries for this recipe but let them thaw and pat them dry with a paper towel.
Instead of making your own crust, save time and use a prepared pie crust.
Poke the warm crust with a fork while to help the filling adhere.
Make sure the butter is at room temperature. Cold butter will not mix into the flour as much and will make your crust overcooked and crispy.
Also, be sure to wait at least 20 minutes for the crust to cool before pouring in the strawberry lemon mix.
This recipe has a good amount of your daily value of several vitamins and minerals including vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, and protein.
If you do not have a blender or food processor, you can use a mixer to beat the butter for the crust and to make the filling.

If you try this strawberry lemon dessert make sure to let us know how you liked it and any variations you tried that you loved or hated.

Let’s grab our strawberries and lemons and get to this lemon strawberry bars recipe shall we?

Yield: 12