Lemon Bar Cookies Made With Lemon Curd (Video)

These lemon bar cookies are made with a buttery cookie base, lemon curd, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. The ultimate lemon cookie loaded with lemon flavor! 

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Lemon Curd Cookies

Lemon curd is the ultimate liquid gold. It’s so delicious you can eat it with a spoon, but I prefer adding it to my favorite desserts—like cookies.

These lemon bar cookies start with the most delicious snickerdoodle cookie dough base (without the cinnamon and sugar). They are buttery, soft, and hold their shape perfectly. Not your typical lemon bar recipe, these cookies are a fun twist on the classic dessert.

Lemon Bar Cookie Ingredients

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• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 10 oz. jar of lemon curd
• powdered sugar (confectioner’s sugar) for dusting

How To Make Lemon Bar Cookies

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter, shortening, and sugar with an electric hand mixer or stand mixer. Beat in eggs.

In a separate bowl whisk flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together.

Combine dry ingredients with butter mixture.

Scoop cookies, using a medium cookie scoop, on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper. I usually bake 6 cookies per sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes.

Allow cookies to cool for 3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Spread cooled cookies with a thin layer of lemon curd and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Lemon Curd Filling/Spread

You can make your own lemon curd using simple ingredients like egg yolks, lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar, and butter (and I have many times using this recipe) or pick up a jar at the grocery store. Right before serving, sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar.

This recipe makes 30 delicious cookies. Store cookies in the refrigerator in an airtight container or cover the cookie sheet with plastic wrap to keep cookies fresh.

Lemon Bar Cookie Recipe

Lemon Bar Cookies

These lemon bar cookies are made with a buttery cookie base, lemon curd, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. The ultimate lemon cookie!

5 from 4 votes

Print Pin Rate

Prep Time: 10 minutes

cooling: 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Servings: 30

Calories: 179kcal

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 10 oz. jar of lemon curd
• powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream butter, shortening, and sugar using an electric mixer. Beat in eggs.
• In a separate bowl whisk flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together.
• Combine dry ingredients with butter/eggs mixture.
• Scoop cookies, using a medium cookie scoop, on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper. I usually bake 6 cookies per sheet.

  Bake for 10 minutes.
• Allow cookies to cool for 3 minutes before transferring to wire racks.
• Spread cooled cookies with a thin layer of lemon curd and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

  Store cookies in an airtight container or cover in plastic in the refrigerator.

Notes

If you prefer to not use shortening you can use butter instead. The texture of the cookie will be slightly different, but still delicious.

Nutrition

Calories: 179kcal

This post was originally shared in 2012 and has been updated with a video and updated photos.