Lemon Bars with Brown Sugar Crust

These lemon bars have a brown sugar crust that is different from the normal shortbread but still very delightful!

Classic lemon bars are one of my favorite desserts. There is a vendor at the farmers’ market I frequent that sells them and I always leave with one in my stomach. When I saw this recipe for Lemon Bars with Brown Sugar Crust in Vegetarian Times, I knew I wanted to try this twist. The addition of brown sugar makes the crust chewier with toffee notes. It was a really nice change of pace but I will always have a special place in my heart for the classic shortbread bottom.

Just like the GIF above, these bars were gone in an instant. I don’t think that they even made it until the next day. I seriously ate at least five of these after they were done in the oven. Gooey lemon curd is my weakness and I could eat it by the spoonful. I gave the 5 or so bars that I didn’t devour to Joe’s parents. Sharing is caring, right? It was more like: “Take these away from me before I fall into a deep yet mouth-watering sugar coma.”