Lemon Curd Whipped Cream after Supper
Prep 10 minutes · Total 10 minutes · Yield 8 people
Lemon Curd Whipped Cream after Supper keeps the shopping list focused on eggs, yolks, and sugar. It serves 8 people.
Count on 10 minutes of prep, about 10 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.
What goes in the bowl
For the Lemon Curd (could also use store-bought)
- 2 eggs
- 2 ½ yolks
- ⅔ cup sugar
- ½ cup lemon juice from, about 3 lemons
- ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
- 3 ½ tablespoons unsalted butter cubed
For the Whipped Cream
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream cold
How the cooking goes
Make the Lemon Curd
- In a large sauce pot, whisk together eggs and yolks until the texture looks smooth and homogenous.
- Beat in sugar and salt very well. Slowly whisk in the lemon juice.
- Cook over a moderate flame, stirring constantly until nappant. Nappant is when you can dip a spoon or spatula into the custard and draw a line across it with your finger and the custard does not run down the spoon into the line.
- Take it off the heat and stir in butter. Strain into a bowl or a plastic wrap lined sheet pan.
- Cover with plastic wrap, poke a few holes and refrigerate until cold.
Make the Whipped Cream
- In a mixing bowl, whip the heavy cream with a whisk until stiff peaks.
Assemble
- In a separate bowl, loosen the curd by beating it with a flexible spatula. It won’t take much but you want to get it pliable, especially if you are using a stabilized lemon curd.
- Take a spoonful of the whipped cream and place it in the bowl with the curd. Mix together. This is called “sacrificing” in baking because you are sacrificing a bit of the volume in the whipped cream to loosen the curd and get it closer to the consistency of the cream.
- Spoon all the loosened curd into the large bowl with the cream and fold through the curd trying to preserve as much volume as possible.
- Use immediately or store refrigerated for up to one week!
After it comes off the heat
Chill it for the time the method names before serving. Keep leftovers covered in the refrigerator.
If you want another plate from Lemon desserts, open Lemon Whipped Cream after Supper and Recipes with Lemon Curd with a Clear Method.
