Weight Watchers Lemon Bars (3 pts.)
Weight Watchers Lemon Bars
3 Points Per Serving!
I LOVE lemon desserts! First, we tried out the Starbucks Lemon Cake Copycat Recipe…which was AMAZING!! And now I am trying these Weight Watchers Lemon Bars. Although I would love to have that lemon cake all the time, my diet doesn’t work when I do that. With this recipe, I can have all that yummy lemon taste and only use 3 points while doing it! I always get a little nervous when I have to make the crust myself, but this was fairly easy. Another delicious recipe the whole family enjoyed!
Weight Watchers Lemon Bars (3 pts.)
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
- 5 tablespoons of packed light brown sugar
- 8 tablespoons of regular cold butter cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar divided in two
- 3/4 cup of fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons of lemon zest optional - don't add for a less tart taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- To make the crust: Mix the flour and brown sugar in a food processor until it is fully blended.
- Add the butter pieces to the flour mixture and pulse the food processor until the butter is cut into tiny, pea-sized pieces and the dough looks lumpy.
- Pour crust mixture evenly into an un-greased 9x13 baking dish. Press the crust down, with a spatula, to make it packed.
- Bake crust in oven until golden brown, about 20 minutes.
- While the crust is baking, make your lemon topping:
- In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the eggs until they are well blended.
- Add the vanilla extract and 3/4 cup of the powdered sugar, then mix well.
- Add the lemon juice and the rest of the powdered sugar. Mix until the powdered sugar is completely dissolved and then add the lemon zest.
- As soon as the crust is finished, take it out of the oven and reduce the temperature to 300.
- Immediately pour your lemon topping over the hot crust and continue to bake for 30 minutes.
- Cool and cut into 24 bars.
Notes
Nutrition facts are provided as a courtesy.
Be sure to check out all of our other Weight Watcher recipes HERE!
Looking for more Weight Watchers recipes? Try the Weight Watcher One Pot Cookbook! It’s one of my favorite cookbooks and you can get the Kindle version for just $16.19!
Enjoy!
Very good recipe. I have tried sooo many weight watchers dessert recipes and they have tasted awful!! I am curiuos, should this be refrigerated once cooled? Do you think it will freeze well?
I made these for Bible Study and they were a HUGE hit!! I brought the rest home for my husband to try and apparently my dog loved them too, she ate them ALL!! Thank you for sharing!
How many WWPoints?
Lemon bars are SO good! Love them! These look amazing!