Today was a good day. The best part of it was meeting my former colleagues for lunch.
I baked these yummy bars to share with them. Our lucky server got a box too 
These bars are a nostalgic childhood favorite that my mom used to make all the time.
Try making them, I promise you, you wont regret it.
INGREDIENTS
For the dough
2 sticks cold butter – diced
2.5 cups flour
2.5 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
Lemon zest from one lemon
4 egg yolks
If needed
Optional – 1tbs water/milk/brandy
For the filling
1 cup jelly – any kind you like (I used apricots)
For the meringue
4 egg whites – room temperature
3/4 sugar
1 cup shredded coconut
INSTRUCTIONS
Warm the oven to 350f/180c
Line a 13×9 pan with parchment paper.
Prep the dough
In a small bowl, rub together sugar and lemon zest with your fingers to releases the aromatic oils.
In a separate bowl, mix the flour with baking powder.
In a food processor, place the dry ingredients with the butter and pulse till crumbly.
Add the egg yolks and keep pulsing till a ball of dough forms. If the crumbs do not form a dough, add 1 tablespoon of fluid (water/milk/brandy/liquor) at a time and keep pulsing till a dough/ball forms.
Press the dough evenly in the pan.
Spread jelly over the dough.
Prep the meringue
In a mixer bowl whip egg whites on high speed till it is foamy and doubled in volume.
Gradually add the sugar and keep beating till you reach stiff peaks.
Fold coconut evenly into the meringue.
Spread the meringue over the jelly and bake at 350f/180c for 30-35min until the meringue is golden.
Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
Cut to squares and serve at room temperature.
keep covered at room temperature for 2-3 days.
Enjoy 
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