Lemon is like Sunshine
Our first recipe from Baking Day with Anna Olson is Lemon Blondies found on page 182.
It’s hard to say no to anything lemon. Scott always says it’s a “happy flavour”. These little beauties don’t disappoint.
Ingredients
Important to use a scale and weigh your ingredients.
- vanilla = 6 grams
- I added lemon extract 1 teaspoon/6 grams
- I added lemon curd 1/2 cup/122 grams
A Word on Zesting
- best to use organic lemons when zesting
- a microplane zesting works best
- always zest directly into your other ingredients/ the most intense flavour comes from the oil when you zest, so you don’t want to leave that on a cutting board
The Bake
- Using a cookie scoop will give you uniform baked goods
- I added roughly 1 teaspoon of lemon curd to centre PRIOR to baking
The Results
My rating of this recipe is 4 out of 5. It is definitely not a typical blondie recipe. Blondies usually are baked in a cake pan and cut into squares. These did not have the traditional blondie texture.
They were like a dense lemon cupcake. Don’t get me wrong, they were tasty, but not a great lemon blondie recipe.
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