Dessert, desserts and more desserts

On Friday evening, after a very long week with work, my hubby and I shared a beautiful dinner of steak and shrimp on the BBQ, and lots of wine!  I was a bit tipsy lazy when it came time for dessert, so I prepared a quick, easy and cool treat:

Store bought mini angel cakes, creamy vanilla ice cream and some chopped ripe strawberries... all drowning in maple syrup!

Saturday we had dinner with some very dear and generous friends.  Since I wasn't feeling tipsy lazy at one o'clock in the afternoon, I baked squares - my lemon squares + homemade brownies.  For years now, they ALWAYS ask for my lemon squares!  I usually bake up a batch along with something new, but they always come back to those lemony bite-size treats.  So here's the recipe for my lemon squares:

LEMON SQUARES
Crust
  1 cup flour (I use pastry flour)
  1/2 cup soft butter
  1/4 cup sugar
  pinch of salt
Mix well and press into a 9x9 inch baking pan.  I line it with parchment paper.  Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes.
Custard
  1 cup sugar
  2 tbsp flour
  1/4 tsp baking powder
  Finely grated rind AND juice of 1 lemon
  2 eggs
Mix well and pour over baked bottom crust.  Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes.  Let cool before cutting into squares and dusting with icing sugar.

For the brownies, I followed the Baker's One Bowl Brownies recipe with butter (and LOTS of it!) and pecans, but also added about a cup of butterscotch chips, just because I felt like it!!!