Article: More zest, less fat fill up lip-smacking lemon bars.

Byline: Elaine Magee

Q: Lemon cake mix bars are great and easy to make. Can you cut some extra calories and fat but keep them as lemony and luscious?

A: Love those cake mix recipes! Turns out this recipe is No. 7 in the Top 10 cookie recipes on www.allrecipes.com.

Now I know why.

The lemon cake mix already has some fat per serving of mix, so we cut the { cup of vegetable oil called for down to 3 tablespoons of canola oil and added 3 tablespoons of fat-free sour cream and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. I switched to light cream cheese instead of regular and doubled the lemon juice added to the cream cheese mixture and also decided to ...

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