Easy Raspberry Filled Lemon Cookie Tarts 🍋

These pretty and delicious little tarts
are impressive and so easy to make!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature

1 cup sugar

1 egg

2 tablespoons milk

1/3 cup sour cream

3.4 ounce box instant lemon pudding

2 cups flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon lemon zest

butter for greasing

1 (21 ounce) can raspberry pie filling

1/4 cup white chocolate

Method:

In a large bowl, use an eletric mixer, at medium speed, to cream together the butter and sugar for 3 minutes. Add the egg and milk. Mix for an additional 3 minutes.

In a separate bowl, stir together the sour cream and pudding mix. Sift together the flour, salt and soda. 

Add the sour cream and flour mixtures to the creamed ingredients. Mix just until well combined and smooth. Fold in the lemon zest. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer.

Preheat oven to 375*. Use butter to grease a mini muffin pan.

Use a tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop balls of dough into the prepared muffin pan.

(Makes 36 dough balls.) 

Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until the edges begin to turn a light golden brown. Immediately after removing from the oven, make an indentation into each baked cookie with the rounded bottom of a tablespoon.

Allow the cookie cups to cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Use a knife to gently loosen the cookies and transfer to a wire rack on top of a baking sheet. Finish cooling.

Use the tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop a portion of pie filling into each cookie cup. 

Add the white chocolate chips to a small microwave safe bowl  Heat on high heat for 45 seconds.** Drizzle over the top of the tarts. Makes 3 dozen filled cookie tarts. Store in an airtight container, in the refrigerator, with sheets of waxed paper in between layers of tarts. 

**The chocolate chips can also be melted in a double boiler:

Place the chips in the top portion of a double boiler over hot, not boiling water. Make certain that the water does not touch the bottom of the pot the chips are in. (Do not cover.) When the chips become shiny, begin to stir constantly until they are melted. Immediately remove from over the water.

Notes: These pretty tarts are perfect to serve on holidays, brunch, parties and tea time. They are a favorite of family and friends! 🩷