Lemon Chess Tassies

Submitted by LMillerRN

"From Southern Living."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 12mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• Crust

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour

• Filling

• 2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
• 1⁄4 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
• 1⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon cornmeal
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Filling:.
2. Whisk together all ingredients. Use filling immediately.
3. Crust:.
4. Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add flour to butter mixture, beating at low speed. Shape mixture into 48 balls; cover and chill 1 hour. Place 1 dough ball into each lightly greased muffin cup in miniature muffin pans, shaping each into a shell.
5. To Assemble:.
6. Spoon Lemon Chess Pie Filling evenly into tart shells.
7. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until filling is set. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks.

Reviews

[nmullen]

one of the best lemon pies i have ever made. i even used bogey'smom idea on using condensed milk & lemon juice on top. it was so good. i will make this again

 

[BogeysMom]

The crust recipe alone for these is worth 5 stars. Just a wonderful recipe. I mixed together 1/4 c. lemon juice and a can of sweetened condensed milk, let it stiffen and then piped it on top as a "finish" for these. Yummy.