Crust for Bars

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar, plus more to sprinkle on the finished bars
• pinch of salt
• 8 tbls unsalted butter, still cool and cut into 8 pieces

Directions

1. Cover a 9-inch square cake pan with two sheets of heavy duty aluminum foil, perpendicular to each other. Spray with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
2. Put the flour, powdered sugar and salt in a food processor and process briefly, about 2 seconds.
3. Add the butter pieces and process to blend, 8 to 10 seconds, then process until the mixture is pale yellow and resembles coarse meal, about three 1-second pulses.
4. Sprinkle the mixture into the prepared cake pan and press firmly with your fingers into an even layer over the entire pan bottom. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.