Recipe | Lemon cream and curd stack
Lemon desserts are quickly become the alternative favourite to chocolate. Being a lemon fan myself, I decided to do some experimenting in the kitchen and came up with this easy dessert. I was particularly surprised with how well the lemon cream turned out; so light, tangy and fresh! I even used the extras to fill a chocolate cake.
Pastry
1. Thaw out 1 sheet of frozen puff pastry
2. Slice into six rectangles. Sprinkle with icing sugar.
3. Cooking according to packet description
Lemon Cream
1 cup
Double cream
1 cup
Icing sugar
1
lemon, juiced
Directions
- Beat cream and icing sugar until it becomes more thicker and stiff in consistency.
- Fold in lemon. Taste, if you feel its need more sweetening, add more icing sugar. Likewise, for the lemon juice.
Lemon Curd (adapted from Maggie Beer's recipe)
75 g Caster sugar
3 tsps Lemon zest
80 ml Lemon juice
40 g butter
Directions
- Whisk yolks and sugar in a small saucepan, until pale
- Add the zest and butter, then place the saucepan over very low heat
- Cook the mixture, whisking continuously for about 7 minutes or when thickened into curd.
And now that you the three different elements prepared, its time to assemble! I sprinkled some more sugar on the pastries and ran over it with a blowtorch but that is an optional step.
Blowtorched or not, coat three of the pastry slices with curd, top with a generous helping of lemon cream (you can pipe it on if you want to be fancy), and then top with another slice of pastry.
Warning- as yummy as this is to eat, it can also be a little messy!
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6 comments
Oooh that looks and sounds delicious, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love lemon in sweet baking! We always have some in the fridge just in case. This looks lovely :D
ReplyDeleteThese look very yummy indeed! I adore lemons, so fresh and zingy :)
ReplyDeleteLemony and creamy with a crunch...can't beat that!
ReplyDeleteela h.
Gray Apron
I was just thinking I might use some puff pastry and make something along these lines. They look really yum!!
ReplyDeleteYummy - have to keep this in mind for a quick dessert when friends come around. Stopping by from the #FFF link up
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments!