Savannah Smiles Zesty Lemon Streusel Bars Recipe 435

Steps:

• 1. Cream together all 4 crust ingredients with an electric mixer, until it forms into dough. 2. Spread the crust dough evenly into a 9"x9" pan. 3. Bake crust for 10 minutes at 350 deg. 4. While the crust is baking, prepare the filling by combining all the filling ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix with an electric mixer for about 2 minutes. 5. Remove the crust from the oven and immediately pour filling on top of the hot crust. 6. Sprinkle the crushed cookies evenly over the filling. 7. Continue baking the bars for 20-25 minutes until set. 8. Remove from the oven and cool. 9. Dust with powdered sugar and serve

Steps:

• Combine filling ingredients until fully blended.
• Blend butter and brown sugar together, add flour and oats, and mix with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Reserve 2 cups streusel and press remaining streusel onto bottom of sprayed 9-inch baking pan.
• Spread filling over crust, sprinkle with reserved streusel, and pat streusel gently into filling.
• Bake 30-35 minutes at 350° or until light golden brown, and cool completely before cutting into bars.

Steps:

• Cream together the butter and sugar.
• Add flour and oatmeal to the butter and sugar mixture to make dough.
• (it will be a little crumbly) Set aside.
• Stir juice and zest into milk.
• Set aside.
• Butter (or spray) a 9 by 13-inch pan.
• Press two-thirds to three quarters of the dough into the pan.
• Spread lemon/milk mixture evenly over the top of the dough.
• Sprinkle the remaining dough over the top.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes until golden.
• Let cool, slice into 1-inch squares.
• Cut into larger squares if you like.