Made it first on 12/2022 for Matthaeus’s advent’s calendar
Ingredients
Shortbread base
- ½ cup (113 g) butter (if unsalted add 1/4 tsp salt)
- ¼ cup (30 g) powdered sugar
- 1 cup (140 g) flour
- 1 pinch salt
Lemon filling
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup (less, 190 g) white sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 pinch salt
- zest of 1/2-1 lemon (1/2 – 1 tablespoon)
Recipe
- Oven: 180°C = 350°F
- Beat medium speed butter and powdered sugar until combined. Add flour and salt and beat until a soft dough forms.
- Prepare a baking pan, butter and flour or line with parchment paper.
- Pat dough evenly at the bottom. Bake 18-20 minutes (if thin, less, 13 min). Remove from oven.
- Beat the eggs, sugar, baking powder, fresh lemon juice, pinch of salt, zest. Pour over baked base and cook 20-25 minutes.
- Refrigerate, then dust with powdered sugar and cut.
from anitalianinmykitchen
Aurore's cookbook 