LEMON BAR COOKIE CUPS Recipes

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.

While searching for fun new cookie recipes to try, I saw several lemon thumbprint cookie recipes, and I couldn’t resist turning them into cookie cups. Cookie cups are fun to make, easy, and the possibilities are almost endless. After I tasted one of my lemon cookie cups, I realized it tasted like a lemon bar.

INGREDIENTS

 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour*
 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
 1/2 teaspoon salt
 1/2 teaspoon baking soda*
 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
 1/2 cup butter, softened
 1/2 cup sugar*
 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar (powdered sugar)
 1/2 cup canola oil
 1 egg
 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
 3/4 cup lemon curd (recipe below)
 powdered sugar for decorating, optional
 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
 1 cup sugar
 2 large eggs
 2 large egg yolks
 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Prepare lemon curd.
2. Preheat oven to 350°.
3. Combine the flours, salt, baking soda and cream of tartar in a small bowl and set aside.
4. 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.
5. Get full instruction : www.barbarabakes.com