Lemon Cream Cheese Bars These Lemon Cream Cheese Bars have a heavenly shortbread like crust that's perfectly crispy and they're oh-so satisfying! What sets these apart from the classic lemon bars ...

These Lemon Bars strike the perfect balance between a buttery shortbread crust and a zingy homemade lemon curd filling. With the help of cream of tartar, the filling thickens enough to stay in place.

For these custardy sweet-tart bars, tangy lemon curd is swirled with a vibrant cranberry puree. The simple and buttery press-in crust makes for a beautiful contrast of flavors and textures.

For this, I wanted to create a bar that had the right crust-to-topping ratio (which I discovered is about 1:3 in my book), delivered enough tangy lemon flavor, and wasn’t too sweet.

Makes 16 to 25 squares. Grapefruit juice, while great for drinking straight, isn’t as strong as lemon juice, so you cannot substitute it one-for-one in a lemon-bar recipe. However, if ...