Name: Gluten Free "Lemon Jam & Lavender" Bars
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups of flour 360g + 1TB GF baking 1 to 1; 2 large eggs; 100 g butter; 2 tsp b.p; 1 tsp vanilla; 1/4 tsp salt; 156 g sugar; 200 g of lemon jam, or any jam you have; optional:; 2 tsp lavender to boost the flavor

Buttery chewy jam “Lemon & Lavender” bars that are so aromatic, and delicious. They are made gluten free, and so easy to come together! Make it today for your afternoon tea or your coffee break!

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How is everyone doing with Corona virus, Covid-19?

Recently, I stopped talking about personal issues in life and others here on the blog, since I know many people care only about the recipe. However, a story or few paragraphs about what happens around us, is what makes the blog real, and actually personal.

*So how do you deal with Quarantine? Is it mandatory where do you live? How are you really doing? And how do you feel?

Here in the UAE, things are great, the cases are low, and well controlled (few days after I wrote this, and before publishing , numbers are rising, and there are more precautions). For me, I’m okay with it, I’m experimenting with recipes, and making new ones that are on my list to try. But it’s harder on my son. He misses his friends in the school. But, I assured him that this is for the benefit for all of us, for our community, and actually for all humanity. So we can get out of this epidemic diseases with minimum loss.

I’m sure that many food bloggers relate, since,we actually work from home. From our kitchens, and our desks most of the time, and usually solo! Developing recipes, photography, editing, publishing and sharing the recipes, consume most of the time. So we are really used to this experience, we already do some kind of self quarantine. But, it’s harder when you are forced not to go out of your house for a long time.

The love for these jam bars has started long long time ago, to the childhood days, when our neighbor used to make these bars and gave us a full tray. I really thought she must been generous to give away this big amount. She spent extra time and made the effort, to give us a whole tray? It was such a great gesture. The tray was orange jam bars, and I swear it’s one of the best desserts I’ve had. My mom wasn’t a dessert fan, or maybe the fact that we were six kids at home, and all the chores, will definitely leave no time and energy to make desserts. Mom is not a sweet tooth type person, but I am, so a sweet gift from our neighbor felt so special.

So today I brought you this recipe with pantry staples. While this look like a simple recipe, it’s very tasty and gluten free, not that it makes it healthier anyway, but lighter in my opinion.

However, you can make these jam bars healthier by:

Reducing sugar by 1/4 cup to make it healthier, no more than that, or the texture won’t be the same.
Using low-sugar homemade jam or jam sweetened by honey, or even with chia seeds!
Replacing butter with vegan butter, or a mix of vegan butter +vegetable oil, or solid coconut oil.
Finally, you can use all purpose flour, if you are not on gluten free diet, it will give a very similar texture, and even tastier. (I will test it with almond flour, to make it paleo and keto too soon).

Unfortunately, you can’t veganize, (make this recipe vegan) the eggs in this recipe are essential. The jam bars are supposed to be rich that’s why it’s hard to substitute the eggs. Any replacement will change the taste of bars, and their texture. For vegan desserts click here

So we in Palestine make similar bars to these lemon jam bars, and we call them (Mabrousheh) means grated. We grate the dough instead of shaping it, in a lattice form. We in the old days, and some people until now , have an abundance of homemade jam especially citrus fruits, like orange. And other fruits like berries , so mulberry jam in Syria and Lebanon. so making these bars are perfect way to use the extra jam jars. However, the origin of this recipe is from Austria. And that’s the name, lizer bars , Linzer come from, a city in Austria

I made these bars, because I have this special jam and I wanted to use it in a delicious way other then typical toast, jam and butter. I bought the jam from a local small business in Jordan, called Namliyeh , they make artisan jams, botanical tea, and collect honey too. They have a small shop, and they may ship internationally too, I’m not so sure. It’s a lemon lavender jam, it’s has a very nice kick of the lemony sweet flavor and earthy tones of lavender.

If you can use this jam, it will be amazing, and if you can’t have access to it, you can simply use any jam. But, make sure it is not a preserve or anything with a liquid base. So, it will not seep to the dough underneath. However, I’ve added more jam, so I kind of faced this problem, but I love overflowing jam in my mouth hhh. But don’t worry, I put the right amount in the ingredients list below, so you won’t have this problem.

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Gluten free flour

Lemon & Lavender Jam

18 bars