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Lemon Bar Cookie Cups

Lemon Bar Cookie Cups

These Lemon Bar Cookie Cups are easy to make, and easier to serve than lemon bars. If you're a lemon bar lover, you'll love this cookie cup version.
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 12 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 48 cookies
Calories 104 kcal

Equipment

  • mini muffin tin
  • Mixing Bowl
  • electric mixer
  • saucepan
  • spatula

Ingredients
  

Cookie Ingredients

  • 1.75 cups all purpose flour
  • 0.5 cups whole wheat flour
  • 0.5 teaspoon salt
  • 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
  • 0.5 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 0.5 cups butter softened
  • 0.5 cups sugar
  • 0.5 cups confectioners’ sugar powdered sugar
  • 0.5 cups canola oil
  • 1 large egg
  • 0.5 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 0.5 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 0.75 cups lemon curd recipe below
  • powdered sugar for decorating optional

Lemon Curd Ingredients

  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter softened at room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • 0.67 cups fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest

Instructions
 

Cookie Instructions

  • Prepare lemon curd.
  • Preheat oven to 350° F.
  • Combine the flours, salt, baking soda and cream of tartar in a small bowl and set aside.
  • In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the oil, egg and extracts. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture and stir until combined.
  • Drop one tablespoon dough into each cup of a greased mini muffin tin or lined with mini cupcake liners. Bake for 8 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make an indentation in the center of each cookie. Fill with a teaspoon of lemon curd.
  • Return to the oven and bake for an additional 4 minutes, or until cookies are firm and lightly browned on the sides. Remove to wire racks to cool.
  • Sprinkle the edges of the cookies with powdered sugar.

Lemon Curd Instructions

  • In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer, until well combined. Add the eggs and yolks and beat for 1 min. Add the lemon juice and mix until blended - the mixture will look lumpy.
  • In a medium, heavy-based saucepan, cook the mixture over low heat until it melts. Increase the heat to medium and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens. It should leave a path on the back of a spoon and will read 170°F on a thermometer. Don't let the mixture boil.
  • Remove the curd from the heat; stir in the lemon zest. Transfer the curd to a bowl. Press plastic wrap on the surface of the lemon curd to keep a skin from forming and chill the curd in the refrigerator. The curd will thicken further as it cools. Covered tightly, it will keep in the refrigerator for a week and in the freezer for 2 months.

Notes

I made the following high altitude adjustments for the cookies: added 2 tablespoons flour, reduced baking soda to ¼ teaspoon, and subtracted 1 tablespoon sugar. Lemon Curd recipe slightly adapted from Fine Cooking.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookieCalories: 104kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 1gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 52mgPotassium: 21mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 58IUCalcium: 6mgIron: 0.3mg
Keyword baked, cookies, dessert, lemon, Lemon Bar Cookie Cups, Sweet
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