The original recipe for these lemon bars were a request from my fabulous aunt when she was down visiting Austin several years back. She had mentioned that she loves to bake and was asking for some  suggestions on lighter treats that were easy to pull together when having dinner with friends or family.

Naturally I suggested Skinny Cherry Pie Bars and soon mentioned that I wanted to work on a lemon bar recipe next. She sweetly encouraged me to work on them sooner than later. Fast-forward years down the line and here we are with an updated version of these Skinny Lemon Bars!

I searched through many lemon bar recipes and found one that was by far the highest rated and started out with some of the simplest of ingredients.​

I'll be honest, when I began trying to lighten this recipe up years ago, I had more than one flub-up. This time around, I was a lot more knowledgable and the process was simple and actually fairly easy to do! Pre-baking the crust is essential, but there’s no need to cook the lemon on the stove top before hand. Not with this recipe!

By the way, you can absolutely sub out all of the regular sugar in this recipe for natural sweetener to make these even more diet friendly and lower in sugar!

I have found that my personal preference, when using natural sweeteners to sub for sugar, is to also use a bit of regular sugar to further fool my tastebuds into believing the fallacy.​

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Nutritional Claims: Low Sodium • Low Potassium • Kidney Friendly •Vegetarian • Pescatarian • Peanut Free • Tree Nut Free • Soy Free • Fish Free • Shellfish Free • Pork Free • Red Meat Free • Crustacean Free • Celery Free • Mustard Free • Sesame Free • Lupine Free • Mollusk Free • Alcohol Free • Kosher