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Key Lime Tarts

Source of Recipe


Paula Deen, from "Paula's Home Cooking"






List of Ingredients



• 24 Key Lime Cooler cookies
  
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  
• 1 egg
  
• 1/2 cup sugar
  
• 2 Tbsp lime juice, preferably Key Lime
  
• 1 tsp lime zest
  
• Fresh sweetened whipped cream
  
• Mint leaves or lime zest, for garnish
  






Instructions



1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
   
   
2. Fill two (12-muffin) mini-muffin tins with paper cups and spray cups with cooking spray. Place one Key Lime Cooler cookie in the bottom of each cup, flat side down.
   
   
3. Beat together cream cheese, egg, sugar, lime juice and zest until well mixed. Fill the cups to the top. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove tarts to cool. When completely cool, fit a star tip in a pastry bag and fill with the whipped cream. Pipe the whipped cream on top of the tarts.
   
   Garnish with tiny mint leaves or lime zest.
   
   Makes 24 tarts.