These lemon meringue pie cookie cups start with a sugar cookie base, lemon curd filling and a quick meringue topping for a perfect refreshing dessert. You won’t be able to stop after just one!
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If you love lemon, or lemon meringue pie you will love these amazing mini lemon meringue pie cookie cups. Wow, that name is quite a mouthful, isn’t it? 🙂 Well I promise you’ll want to stuff your mouth full of these tasty cookie cups, I know I did!
These lemon meringue cookie cups start with a sugar cookie cup base, just like the other cookie cups I’ve shared this month – (check out the banana cream pie cookie cups and cheesecake sugar cookie cups if you haven’t already) – can I tell you, I’m obsessed. You better believe I’m thinking up a million more ways to make cookie cup goodness, so stay tuned! And if you have any you’ve tried and love before send them my way.
Next the cookie cups are filled with lemon curd, you can use a store bought lemon curd, or my amazing 4 ingredient microwave lemon curd! Then you’ll whip up a 2 ingredient meringue using egg whites and a little sugar. Toast it up till the meringue gets that nice brown crust and then let them cool for a bit and then enjoy!
Did I mention that we have chickens now? Every one keeps wondering how I’m going to use up all those eggs – but I think they forget that I’m baking desserts obsessively for the blog (and to eat) several days a week. Also, we love breakfast and breakfast for dinner, so I don’t think it’ll be a problem. Especially because I think I’ll be making these lemon meringue pie cookie cups every couple weeks all summer long, because YUM! And start to finish with the homemade lemon curd and meringue, you’ll need 5 eggs, so voila 😉
Anyway, back to the important stuff – this recipe:
Lemon Meringue Pie Cookie Cups
Ingredients
- 1 pkg refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 1 cup lemon curd
For the Meringue:
- 2 egg whites
- 3 TBS sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut sugar cookie dough into 12 slices.
- Press each slice into a greased muffin tin. Press into the bottom and up the sides about 2/3 of the way, to create a little bowl.
- Bake for about 15-18 minutes until the edges just start to turn a golden brown color.
- Allow to cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. (The easiest way for me was just by inverting the pan and tapping the bottom so they'd fall out)
- Fill each cookie cup with about 1 1/2 TBS of lemon curd. Set aside
- Beat egg whites on high until they are nice and foamy.
- Add sugar 1 tablespoon at a time until added, and keep mixing on high until stiff peaks are formed.
- Top each cup with meringue.
- Place cups on a baking sheet and broil in oven, watching super closely until the tips are browned! Mine only took about 15-18 seconds until the tips were browned, and they burn quick.
- Remove from oven and move to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
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Avery says
Can I use premise pie crust instead of cookie dough?
Aimee says
I haven’t tried it for these, I’m not sure how it would affect the baking time, but it should work 🤷♀️
Patti Mitchell says
I’m interested in making these but am not sure about the package of cookie dough. Do you use one from the baking section of the store or the refrigerated one that you cut and bake?
Aimee says
I used the refrigerated dough.
Leslie says
How did you get the cookie cup walls and bottom to be so uniform? I can’t get packaged sugar cookie dough where I live so I have made these from scratch but it is very hard to make the cookie cup smooth and even. The bottom puffs up so much. Any ideas?
Aimee says
Honestly, mine just do that on their own – but if yours puff up in the middle when baking, if you take one of those mini spice jars, or a tablespoon or something small, you can press into the cookie dough after it bakes and make a little hole for the filling like that <3
Christy says
How should these be stored? The lemon curd recipe says to refrigerate, so do these need to be kept in the fridge too (if they survive that long 😉)
Aimee says
I’d keep them in the fridge! I always keep the full lemon meringue pie in the fridge as well 🙂
Judy says
My husband can’t have sugar 🙁 please help me ??? He is very good about watching sugar in take …. ty loving wife
Aimee says
So sorry he can’t have sugar, does he eat splenda or stevia or anything? Since these use store bought cookie dough made with sugar I don’t think they’d be a good fit, but other recipes can be made with these subs
Quorra says
Can you make these in a mini muffin pan? My jobs has pot lucks constantly (no joke, been there 2 months and they have already had 3) and I am looking for something to new bring. Any idea on cooking time for a smaller treat? I need to feed as many as I can a cheaply as possible.
Quorra says
…..oh and do these get soggy if you make them in advance?
Aimee Berrett says
You can totally make them in a mini muffin pan instead. Since you cook the dough first I’d just check when it just barely starts to turn golden. My guess is 10ish minutes? I’ve eaten them a few days later, and they didn’t get soggy so I *think* you should be okay! Let me know how it goes!
Ellen Garrett says
I am in heaven.
Sarah @Whole and Heavenly Oven says
This is seriously the most genius twist on lemon meringue pie ever!! I would definitely eat more than my share of these adorable cookie cups with zero shame. Love it!!