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2 Ingredient Lemon Bars Recipe

Megan
2 ingredient lemon bars are an impossibly quick and easy to make lemon dessert made from light and airy angel food cake mix and tart lemon pie filling. Top these lemon bars from cake mix with a dusting of sweet powdered sugar for a wonderfully refreshing dessert that’s made for spring and summer entertaining.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Cooling Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 16 servings

Equipment

  • 1 9x13 baking pan or casserole dish
  • 1 mixing bowl
  • 1 whisk
  • 1 spoon or flexible spatula

Ingredients
  

  • 16 oz. angel food cake mix
  • 22 oz. lemon pie filling

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 F (177 C). Lightly grease and line the bottom and long sides of a 9 x 13 inch cake pan with parchment paper. 
  • In a large mixing bowl, whisk the two packets (if the boxed angel food cake mix has two) together until well combined. If the mix you have only has one packet, just whisk the contents into a mixing bowl until well combined. 
    16 oz. angel food cake mix
  • Whisk in all of the lemon pie filling into the dry angel food cake mix until smooth and well combined. The texture will be a bit tacky like putty.
    22 oz. lemon pie filling
  • Evenly spread the lemon pie angel cake batter into the prepared pan. Smooth the top using a flexible spatula or icing palette knife.
    Bake the lemon cake bars for 30 - 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. The edges of the lemon bars should pull slightly from the edge of the pan and the top should be a light golden brown. 
  • Cool the cake in the cake pan for 60 minutes or until room temperature. Using the parchment paper, gently lift the lemon pie filling cake bars out of the pan using the parchment paper on the sides of the pan. 
    Dust with powdered sugar if you like, slice and enjoy.

Notes

Store: Place these two ingredient lemon squares an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. These bars are best when enjoyed within 1 - 2 days of baking.
See Variations section of the blog post to make these as 3 ingredient lemon bars using regular cake mix or to top these lemon bars with a lemon glaze. 
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