If it possible you had mild lemons? With 1/4 cup lemon juice in the brownies and 2 tablespoons in the glaze, these brownies have been described as SUPER lemony. Did you use the water glaze?

It was a good brownie. The only thing I would comment is that I would have preferred more of a lemon taste.

How did yours turn out so yellow? There cooling now, but can’t wait to try!😉

In reply to Carmenwebster.

Amanda, you are amazing. You even think to add the specific directions if you use a larger pan with these brownies. All your recipes are great, you’re gracious and respectful ad I love that I found your page. Everything I’ve tried has turned out and turned out well, not justmy opinion, because I share food with a few households. Thank you.

Good recipe but if you want the lemon taste add way more lemon juice. I squeezed a whole large lemon and all its zest and I should have added more. I also only added 1 3/4 cups flour as the dough was already getting thick. I threw in cranberries as well, but just because I had them.

Great advice on weighing flour! thank you

I made these exactly as instructed, with the exception of adding a very small splash of lemon extract. Baked them in a 9×13 dish for 30 minutes, and after they cooled I added the glaze of confectioners sugar and lemon juice. They were perfect — dense and just fudgy enough…as all brownies should be. They were sufficiently lemony too. One note: I weigh most of my ingredients on a kitchen scale rather than measure them in a cup — this is especially a good idea when measuring out flour, which requires precision, and could well be the difference between brownies that are dense and fudgy vs. dry and cakey as some commenters complained of.

It was more cakey than I like. It seemed like an awful lot of flour. I folded in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. I also scaled the ingredients in grams and It was more like 2 cups vs 2 1/2 cups of flour. I would maybe use 1 1/2 cups next time…

There are 3 forms of measurement in the recipe card. Stick, cup, and grams.
“1 cup (2 sticks / 226 g) unsalted butter, melted”