Delicious & Award-Winning Grain-Free Lemon Bars
Back in high school, my friend Alisha’s mom made THE BEST lemon bars on the planet! Completely binge-worthy! She would lure me over to her house with them. If you are familiar with anything Minnesotan, then you know we LOVE us some dessert bars!
Over the years, I changed up my way of eating, and my exclusions would not allow for the traditional lemon bars. But, that didn’t stop me! I came up with my own version of Grain-Free Lemon Bars that are just as tasty as the original recipe!
But before I get to the recipe, check out this gem. A picture of me enjoying the lemon bars with my friend Alisha. I was about 17 here, and clearly had a great fashion sense!


Grain-Free Lemon Bars
Equipment
Ingredients
- Crust:
- 1 cup cassava flour
- ¼ cup organic cane sugar
- ¼ cup organic powdered sugar
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 8 Tbsp chilled butter cut into pieces
- Filling:
- 4 large pastured eggs
- 1 large pastured egg yolk
- 1 cup organic cane sugar
- 2 Tbsp powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp lemon zest
- ½ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- ¼ cup cassava flour
- 10 drops lemon vitality essential oil
Instructions
- 1. Heat to 325°F.
- 2. Grease an 11×7-inch baking glass dish with butter. Line the dish with a parchment paper sling, leaving an overhang of about 2 inches on each long side.
- 3. Combine the flour, cane sugar, powdered sugar, zest, and salt in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the blade attachment and pulse to combine.
- 4. Add the butter and pulse until it looks like coarse crumbs.
- 5. Press the crust into the greased pan and chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
- 6. Par bake the crust until light golden-brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
- 7. In a separate bowl, whisk the whole eggs, egg yolk, cane sugar, powdered sugar, zest, salt, lemon juice, cassava flour, and lemon essential oil.
- 8. Remove the parbaked crust from the oven and pour the lemon filling onto the warm crust.
- 9. Return the pan to the oven and bake until light brown around the edges, about 15 to 20 minutes.
- 10. Cool completely on a wire rack before cutting.
- 11. Remove the lemon bars from the pan using the parchment sling.
- 12. Use a fine-mesh strainer to generously dust the bars with powdered sugar.
- 13. Store your grain-free lemon bars in a sealed container in the fridge; they will last up to one week.
My kids LOVE them!!!


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Hi, my name is Kate.
I love food. Real food. We eat all of the things that nursing school taught me were bad for you: butter, eggs, bacon, and raw milk.
I am a Nurse, a Mom, and a Real Food loving blogger. Just trying to save the world.