Vegan Lemon Bars
From jo_jo_ba 14 years ago
- 40 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Adapted from The Joy of Vegan Baking just a tad, adding a little shortening for a sturdier crust base and cornmeal for a bit of yellow, texured goodness. The filling is perfectly tart with full-out lemon flavour from the use of zest, juice and extract!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup margarine, softened shopping list
- 1/4 cup shortening shopping list
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar shopping list
- 1 cup minus 2 tbsp flour shopping list
- 2 tbsp fine yellow cornmeal shopping list
- 6 oz low fat firm silken tofu shopping list
- 3/4 cup sugar shopping list
- Zest and juice of 3 lemons shopping list
- 1/2 tbsp lemon extract shopping list
- 2 tbsp flour shopping list
- 1 tbsp tapioca starch shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly grease an 8" pan and line with parchment paper.
- Cream margarine, shortening and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add flour and cornmeal, mix just until the dough comes together.
- Press into the bottom of prepared pan. Bake 20 minutes and set aside to cool while preparing filling.
- Blend tofu until creamy.
- Add sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and lemon extract, pureeing completely.
- Pulse in flour and tapioca starch until well combined.
- Bake for 20 minutes in the prepared crust.
- Cool completely before serving.
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