Low-Cal Lime Curd Cookies

Adapated from a recipe at WeightWatchers.com

• Ready In: 18 mins
• Serves: 18
• Yields: 36 cookies

Ingredients

• 2  tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• 3⁄4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons lime zest, finely minced
• 2  large eggs
• 1⁄3 cup fresh lime juice
• 36  shortbread cookies, commercially prepared (about 10 oz total)
• 3⁄4 cup  light whipped topping

Directions

1. In a medium mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light; add zest. Next, add one egg at a time, beating after each addition; add lime juice (mixture will be lumpy).
2. Pour mixture into a medium saucepan; cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until lime mixture thickens like a pudding, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
3. Spread a heaping teaspoon of lime curd onto each cookie. Before serving, top each with a teaspoon of whipped topping.