Easy Lemon Bars

Lemon ranks right up there with chocolate

at 

Purple Chocolat Home

and these Easy Lemon Bars are ones that

will wet your appetite, and so easy to prepare.

I have been working on family histories and

after going back to Wisconsin for a family

reunion this summer, I started doing my Aunt Ionia's

history.  In 1990 we had video taped her telling

her life story.  

I came home and transcribed that.  

It wasn't that easy since it was on a VHS,

but my daughter found a VHS to DVD dubbing

machine at Wal Mart for $168 and with as

many that I needed to dub,  I decided it was 

cheaper than taking them out to have them

transferred.  Besides, I didn't know what was

on them - could have been the Knots Landing Finale

(ooh, that dates me!)

After I got that done, I began adding pictures.  I had

gathered a lot more pictures at the family reunion.  

Doing my Dad's life story (which is now at the publishers -

Lulu.com)

I realized pictures make the story, so all of our family

histories need to be redone, with pictures added, including

mine, which I wrote in 2000.

Anyway, Ionia was known as a great cook.  She

always collected recipes from others, made them

and then was willing to share the recipes with us.

She passed away in 2003 and my cousin put together

a book of memories from all of her nieces and nephews

and others, and included recipes that people submitted.

I am now in the process of adding those recipes to her

life history and want to add pictures to the recipes

(to entice people, you know), and this was one

of the first I have made to add to her history.

Easy Lemon Bars

1 pkg. lemon cake mix

1/2 C. melted butter

1 egg.

Mix the above and pat it into a 9x13 inch pan

that has been sprayed with Pam.

In a large mixing bowl, blend

1 can lemon frosting

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

2 eggs

Pour over the crust.  Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes.

Let cool.

Frosting

1/4 C. butter, melted

2 C. powdered sugar

2 T. lemon juice

1 T. water, if needed to make it spreadable

Beat the above ingredients together to form a fluffy

frosting.  Frost.  Refrigerate until the frosting

and filling are set up, then cut using a knife

that is run under hot water and then dried off

with a paper towel.  Repeat the heating and drying

of the knife as you cut to get smooth and pretty

edges.

Refrigerate as these contain cream cheese.

The response I got as everyone sampled them was

Mmmmmmmm.....!