Lemon Tassies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
• 1 large egg, beaten lightly
• 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
• 2 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind
• cream cheese pastry (this recipe is in my cookbook)

Recipe

• 1 make pastry and fit it into 24 miniature muffin pans.
• 2 preheat oven to 375 degrees f.
• 3 for filling: combine sugar and butter well and beat in egg, corn syrup, lemon juice and rind.
• 4 divide filling among shells and bake tassies for 20 minutes.
• 5 let tassies cool for 5 minutes and remove carefully from muffin cups using tip of a sharp knife to ease them out.
• 6 let cool completely.