Eeewww!

This weeks recipe came from Pinterest. It looks so pretty. It's pink and covered in powdered sugar. It's got to be good, right? SO WRONG!! Strawberry lemonade bars, sounds better than it tastes. Then again, could be just me. I can barely taste the strawberry, but it did make it the pretty pink color. Maybe this recipe could be modified with less lemon juice?? After the bars cooled, the tartness wasn't quite as strong. Still, this is a bust! It wasn't a hard recipe. It called for lemon zest, and that threw me for a loop. Thanks to some help from work, I learned that you can substitute for more lemon juice. Anyway, this was awful for us. If you've done these and they turned out better, let me know what you did. I was hoping these would be super great considering I wore a superhero cape while making them. Maybe I should put extra sugar on the top???

STRAWBERRY LEMONADE BARS
crust:
(1/4) c sugar
(1/2) c butter
(1 1/2) c all purpose flour
(1/4) tsp salt

Filling:
(1) c lemon juice
(2-3) tsp lemon zest
(1/2) c puréed strawberries
(1 1/4) c sugar
(4) large eggs
(1/4) c all-purpose flour
(1/2) tsp baking powder
(1/4) tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9x13 pan. Mix crust in large bowl. Press into pan and bake for 17 minutes. While crust bakes, prepare filling. Pour filling over hot crust. Bake for 25 minutes. A light colored crust will form on top. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cool and store in refrigerator.