Sunday, August 16, 2009

Bars of Experimentation...

Above: Passionfruit Bars
Below: Lime Bars

Recently I made a batch of lemon bars and had been noodling on the idea of branching out into bars of other flavors. Primarily flavored with other citrus fruits then on to others as well...

So this Sunday was a girls potluck dinner at Vanessa's house and I decided to make lime and passionfruit bars...with my fingers crossed that it would turn out ok. And much to my relief they were delicious! So same recipe as the lemon, just make substitutions as follows:

Passionfruit bars
Use orange zest wherever lemon zest is called for
Replace lemon juice with passionfruit juice (I get mine from the Perfect Puree of Napa Valley)
Top with powdered sugar and sweetened coconut shavings

Lime bars
Use lime zest and juice in place of lemon
If I could, I would have used key lime juice as that would have given a different flavor and I would have added a little green food coloring since the natural lime juice isn't that colorful. This would have been fun with a little candied pineapple chopped on top.

3 comments:

Hiroko said...

SO YUM!!! They were a hit at the party :)

"Tae's Mom" said...

How the heck do you have time to do all these things? You're insane... but it does look all very appetizing! Yum yum.
You should start cookbook.

Malibu Betty said...

We had both grandparents in town so I never got to hold the baby...lol..