Strawberry-Lemon Poppyseed Bars

This is a cookie bar with fresh strawberries and lemon juice with crunchy poppy seeds. The absolute perfect summer treat! Very light and bright in flavors and easy to make for a summer pool party. Be careful, I put it int h oven fir 25 minutes stuck in a toothpick and it came out perfectly clean. So, I thought it was done and I took it out. BUT, it was in fact not close at all. So stick with 35 minutes at least.

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter softened

• 1 large egg

• 1/4 tsp almond extract

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice

• 1 1/2 tbsp poppy seed

• 2 1/4 cup flour

• 1/2 tsp baking powder

• 1/2 tsp salt

• generous 1 cup diced fresh strawberries

  Strawberry glaze

• 1 cup sifted powdered sugar

• 1 tbsp strawberry puree (2 blended strawberries)

• 1 tbsp lemon juice

  Directions

• preheat oven to 350 line a 9x9 baking dish or 8x8 with parchment paper

• make batter, combine softened butter and both sugars. Mix until smooth and fluffy.

• add in egg, almond and vanilla extracts, and lemon juice.

• next with spatula fold in flour, baking powder; halfway through add strawberries and the rest of the dry ingredients. Complete folding everything together.

• put dough in baking dish and press down with a spatula to flatten. Or take plastic and lay it over top of dough and press down to get it flat.

• bake in for 30-35 minutes, while it is baking make the glaze

• in bowl sifted powdered sugar, next take tw large strawberries and blend very well. Strain the strawberry juice through a strainer into a bowl.

• add 1 tbsp of the puree and 1 tbsp of the lemon juice into the powdered sugar, mix until it becomes a little thick and you can drizzle it into a figure eight.

• when the blondie comes you have to wait for it to cool to glaze, about 1 hour.

• drizzle the glaze on top, cut into 9 or 12 squares and ENJOY!