So while chocolate is my favourite sweet treat, I felt the need to break out and create this amazingly easy Lemon Bars recipe!  Sweet, tangy, fresh, rich and decadent was the aim, while keeping to all my other requirements of healthy, and super easy to make.

Bliss

Some people say their recipes are easy but once I read the super long ingredients list and I’m already annoyed with it, then I read no further.

Next!

Full of polyunsaturated fats? Next.
Lots of grains? Next.
Has more than one stage of cooking? Next.

Sure the triple layer stuff looks great, but mixing it all separately, dirtying more dishes, having to stop and chill before the next layer? Ahhhhhh!!!!! I draw the line at two layers and it gets all mushed up in your mouth anyway, so who cares as long as it tastes good?

So I research a few recipes first, reject a lot, find something close to what I want, then re-jig to make it exactly what I want. Sometimes it works and sometimes, not so much.

So the first attempt at my lemon bars was to be a two-layered number. Macadamia layer on the bottom and coconut layer on the top. A little high on the annoying scale for my liking, but just barely tolerable. I didn’t have to wash the whizzer in between, so I was thankful for small mercies.

Prepped it all up, chilled overnight for the big reveal and slicing the next day and… disaster! Well not in the grand cosmic scale of disasters, more like disappointment. It was totally the taste and texture I was going for, but the coconut layer separated from the bottom layer when cutting, which made it all a crumbly mess. Doh!

So while I enjoyed the taste of it with my cup of tea, I was determined to try again and with even more resolve to do away with the fancy-pantsy two layers. Didn’t need it. So spurred on by the fact that I was actually making the recipe easier, Lemon Bars Gluten Free was born! Mushed together in just one easy step instead of about four, it was a dream and perfectly how I wanted it to be. Yay!

For you…

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Lemon Bars Gluten Free

Tangy delicious and super easy to make. Using the two best saturated fats - macadamia nuts and coconut oil.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time1 minute min

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Healthy

Keyword: 6 ingredients, Easy, no bake

Servings: 10

Equipment

• Food processor
• Slice tin

Ingredients

• 1 cup raw macadamia nuts
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 3 TBS organic maple syrup
• 1 lemon zest and juice
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

• Whizz nuts first in a food processor until forms a smooth paste.
• Add rest of ingredients and keep whizzing until well combined.
• Press into a paper lined tin, sprinkle top with a little shredded coconut.
• Chill in fridge overnight and cut into squares before serving.

Notes

I originally called it Lemoni Slice as it has a nice ring and sounds Italian! But the search bots said no one looks for that. So a plain jane name it is!

Google doesn't like the fact that there is no cook time, so I had to put in 1 minute, even though we don't actually 'cook' anything!

The taste testers gave it the big thumbs up followed by, “please give me the recipe!” Happy days.

Hope you love it and I would love to hear if you make it.

Enjoy!

Kristy x

Note: for more recipes head to my recipe page here or check out my Sweet Treats recipe book here.