It’s Spring and that means its time for lemon bars and all things bright and light! These sweet little Lemon Bar Cookie Cups are the perfect individual lemon treat. They start out with a homemade cookie cup from scratch that’s somewhere between a sugar cookie and a short bread cookie. Then the sweet cups are filled with a homemade lemon curd that is super easy to make - and nearly fool proof too!

Now, I’ve made thumbprint lemon cookies before, but these cups take it a step further and give you a lot more cookie and lemon goodness, but the thumbprint version have their place too. Honestly these Lemon Bar Cookie Cups remind me of lemon pies too.

To lighten these little cookie cups up, I used a whole lot less sugar. Over HALF the sugar was swapped out for a sweetener substitute and let me just say that you can’t even tell. But really, that’s the only change I made. Although I’m pretty sure that I accidentally left out the butter from my curd because I found some softening in my microwave this morning.

Either way, they still turned out amazing and I love having these on hand in the fridge to snack on and they would be a great addition to any Spring or Easter spread or even added in to lunch through the week for a small dessert option to sate any sweet tooth cravings!

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