These Triple Lemon Gooey Bars are loaded with lemon flavor and are super soft and gooey to the max!
Don't these bars just make you happy?! I mean, just the bright yellow color is enough to brighten my day right up. Not to mention the lemon flavor. I LOVE lemons desserts and it seems as if you guys love them too because recipes like this lemon bundt cake are the most popular on my site! These lemon blondies are super soft, gooey (hence the title) and are lemon overload.
These lemon bars are jam packed with a triple dose of lemon flavor. You have lemon cake mix, lemon zest and lemon juice all packed into them. Talk about delicious!
They start with a cake mix and make the most delicious dessert with the smallest amount of effort! You can even interchange the ingredients with the flavors you'd like to have. Want red velvet? Just switch out the cake mix, and obviously the lemon juice and zest. Want carrot cake? (Hello Easter!) Use carrot cake mix instead! The possibilities are e-n-d-l-e-s-s!
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Why you'll love this recipe
- EASY recipe: This recipe starts with a cake mix so it is such a yummy shortcut dessert!
- The texture is so good! Gooey and so super soft.
Ingredient Notes
- Lemon cake mix
- Unsalted butter
- Egg
- Fresh lemon juice + zest
- Sweetened condensed milk
- White chocolate chips
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions.
Substitutions & Variations
- Replace the lemon cake mix (and omit lemon juice + zest) with any flavor to create your own version! Adjust the mix-ins as well. Examples: red velvet + white chocolate chips, funfetti with white chocolate chips.
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📋 Recipe
Triple Lemon Gooey Bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 box lemon cake mix
- 1 egg
- zest of one lemon
- 1 tbs lemon juice
- ¾ cup white chocolate chips
- ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °F. Line a 9x9 baking pan with foil an grease very well.
- In a large bowl, beat butter until smooth. Mix in cake mix, egg, lemon zest and lemon juice until combined. Mixture will be a thick, dough-like consistency.
- Press ⅔ of the mixture down into the bottom of the prepared pan. Sprinkle white chocolate chips on top and drizzle sweetened condensed milk on top of that in an even layer. Scatter the remaining dough on top, trying to fill as much space as you can. There will be holes and that is okay, the dough will spread a bit in the oven.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, until the edges pull away from the sides and the top is set. Be sure to cool bars completely in the pan before cutting into them.
Notes
Nutrition
The provided nutritional information is an estimate per serving. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Laurie says
They look wonderful but I don't see all the directions. I presume that everything gets mixed together and poured into a pan. But not sure what temperature and how long they cook.
Jessica says
I'm very sorry about that, I'm not sure what happened! The recipe is updated with the full instructions including baking temperature and time. Thank you so much for pointing that out, Laurie!