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Our calendars are marked for December 8, 2015! Why? That’s the release date of the Minions movie on Blu-Ray/DVD and we’ve been waiting for it! Lilu is a big-time Minions fan and both Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 (also by Illumination Entertainment) are in our regular movie rotation. We love to have movie nights together as a family on the weekend, and this will be our December movie night title!

Of course a proper movie night calls for a special treat, so we made these “Lem-minion” Bars (Get it? Lemon + minion!). It’s a fun twist on a classic lemon bar, that can easily be made gluten free (as we did ours). Everything we needed for this recipe and our Minions movie night was found at Target (oh, how I love Target!) Their Market Pantry brand offers high-quality and affordable options for many of the ingredients: sugar, butter, eggs, salt, and flour.

Here’s what you need to make these luscious gluten free lemon bars:

1/2 cup coconut flour (you can substitute regular all-purpose flour if you don’t need them to be gluten free)
1 3/4 cup sugar (we used Market Pantry brand)
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup arrowroot powder
1 cup softened butter
4 eggs
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
Large white chocolate melting wafers
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

For the Crust: Add flour and 1/4 cup sugar to a medium mixing bowl and stir until well combined. Add 1 cup softened butter and work into flour by hand (we used a potato masher) until a clumpy dough is formed.

Line a 9×9 metal cake pan with a couple sheets of aluminum foil all the way over the edges of the pan (this will make it easy to remove the bars once cooked and cooled). Press dough into an even layer on the bottom of the pan. Bake 18-20 minutes at 350°.

Allow crust to cool completely before adding the lemon curd layer.

For the Lemon Curd: Whisk together 1 1/2 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 1/4 cup arrowroot powder, and 1/3 cup lemon juice until well mixed. Doing this by hand will give you more control to prevent overworking (and whipping) the eggs.

Pour lemon curd into the pan over cooled crust and bake for 20 minutes at 350°. Remove from oven and allow to come down to room temperature before placing in fridge to set for a few hours, or overnight.

To Decorate: Once the lemon bars have fully set (though they will still be a bit sticky to the touch), carefully pull the sides of the foil to remove the entire dessert from the pan.

Peel the foil from the back of the dessert. You can now slice into even bars. (We did 6 bars so they would be minion-shaped).

I used melting chocolate to give my Le-minion Bars their fun faces. Solid round white chocolate wafers were a super-easy way to make the eyes because you can just place them as is on top of the bars. I used melted semi-sweet chocolate to draw on the details. (A dab of melted chocolate on the back of the white chocolate wafers keeps them in place.)

An inexpensive, small plastic squeeze bottle (like the ones you often see ketchup in) gave me a lot of control, but you could also use a pastry/frosting bag or even a plastic zipper bag with the corner cut.

If you’re just as excited as we are about bringing the Minions home, you can pre-order the The Minions Metalpak Blu-ray/DVD, exclusively at Target.com. As an awesome bonus, you get a $5 Target gift card FREE with your pre-order!

The Minions Metalpak Blu-ray/DVD also comes with 40 minutes of Target exclusive content, including fun tips and ideas to create the perfect Minions watch party: from recipes to decorations!

For even more Minions Fun, join our Minions Viewing Twitter Party on December 11th from 7-9pm EST! RSVP at www.SoFabChats.com and follow along with the #MinionsMovieNight on Twitter.

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