Lick Your Lips Lemon Curd!

This is a great recipe to give as a gift for the holidays or just to have on hand for snacking. I absolutely LOVE lemon curd - it is basically like a chocolate sauce, but lemon. Ha! I use it on toast, cookies, mixed with yogurt, ice-cream, as a cheesecake topping, fold into whipcream,  - basically anything you would put a topping on, I use it on. It is really, really easy to make - so easy in fact, Loni made this batch below. Enjoy!


Lick Your Lips Lemon Curd


2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (we used about 4 lemons and had plenty)
4 large eggs plus 4 large yolks
1/4 cup finely grated lemon peel (about 4 lemons)
1 1/2 sticks (6 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into chunks

First optional step: Enlist a handsome husband who is actually interested in learning how to make curd. <3!

Whisk sugar and lemon juice together in a medium sauce pan over medium heat. Beat eggs and yolks together prior to adding to pan. Add eggs and lemon peel to sauce mixture in pan. Stir together. Add the butter (cut into chunks) to the mixture, still stirring/whisking constantly.  

Lower heat to simmer, unitl mixture reaches 160 degrees on a candy thermometer. Immediately remove from heat, strain through a fine mesh strainer into a clean bowl. This is important because there are flakes of lemon peel which you will need to remove. Immediately cover with saran wrap and let cool to room temperature. Once cooled, transfer to airtight container and refrigerate. Curd is good for up to one month in the fridge. Package and hand out as gifts. I kept mine simple - the jars were already cute. 

Tip: to make it more lemon-y, add more lemon juice.

 Yes - he is grating the lemon peels...and I love him for that!