That is the pie for lemon lovers! The filling is clean, silky, and filled with that excellent tangy lemon taste. Not too candy, not too bitter. It’s topped with a stabilized whipped cream. Not like common whipped cream, this one holds its form for days. You’ll be able to unfold it on or pipe it into cute designs. It’ll keep gentle and fluffy it doesn’t matter what.
Lemon lovers can even love our lemon bars, lemon cookies, and lemon pound cake.
Why Our Recipe
- A deliciously clean, silky, and tangy filling stuffed with lemon taste.
- Stabilized whipped cream you could both unfold on high or pipe on in designs and it’ll keep gentle and ethereal for days.
- Use a pre-made pie crust so you should use a basic pastry, graham cracker, or shortbread crust.
The entire lemon taste on this pie comes straight from the lemons themselves. Clearly, freshly squeezed is what you want right here because you’ll want a mixture of lemon zest and lemon juice. This offers you a shiny, contemporary taste. And don’t fear, it received’t be bitter!
Ingredient Notes
- Granulated Sugar: You want it for construction in addition to to stability out the sourness of the lemon. Don’t try to substitute.
- Cornstarch: The thickener.
- Heavy Cream: Use heavy cream or heavy whipping cream. Both is fatty sufficient for this pie.
- Milk: Use entire milk or 2%.
- Lemon Zest: Make sure to zest the lemon earlier than juicing it.
- Lemon Juice: Freshly squeezed is finest right here and also you wanted the lemon zest anyway. Bottled lemon juice simply doesn’t fairly measure up.
- Egg Yolks: These additionally assist thicken the filling and make it velvety.
- Salted Butter: In case you solely have unsalted, add only a pinch of salt which is a taste enhancer.
- Ready Pie Crust: Use a store-bought pastry crust, a no-bake graham cracker crust, or a do-it-yourself honey shortbread crust. Simply make certain it’s cooked and able to go earlier than including the filling.
- Unflavored Gelatin: Bought within the baking aisle. You’ll must bloom it in water first which simply means letting it sit.
Crust Choices
This recipe requires a ready pie crust. You’ll be able to go the usual route with a do-it-yourself pastry pie crust, or go utterly no-bake with a graham cracker crust. One among our favourite crusts is a honey shortbread crust that tastes like a graham cracker crust with extra of the feel of a basic pastry crust. Will probably be scrumptious irrespective of which you select!
A store-bought pie crust is all the time an amazing handy possibility for making a lemon pie. You need to use frozen pie shells, pie crust dough from a tube that you simply roll out your self, or a pre-made graham cracker crust. This recipe is designed for the standard pie crust, so don’t buy a deep dish crust. As a result of this isn’t a baked pie, you’ll must make sure you put together the crust and bake forward based on the bundle instructions.
End Appears to be like: The Topping
For the best basic possibility, simply unfold it on high! Use a spatula or the again of a spoon to create clean swirls or peaks.
To pipe the whipped cream, switch every thing to a piping bag fitted with a Wilton 1M or 2D tip. For rosettes, begin by holding the piping bag upright over the pie. Squeeze the bag to kind a good swirl, transferring from the middle outward in a round movement. Launch the stress on the finish of every rosette. For a swirled edge, maintain the piping bag at a 90-degree angle and pipe small, steady swirls across the edges of the pie.
Tempering Eggs
Tempering eggs is all about stopping the egg yolks from scrambling once they hit the new lemon combination. It could sound a bit tough, however I promise it’s straightforward when you perceive what you might be imagined to do.
Have every thing prepared: Arrange your bowl of egg yolks and whisk subsequent to the range earlier than you begin cooking the filling. This makes the method smoother and fewer hectic.
Not too scorching: Hold your warmth at medium—going too scorching too quick will increase the danger of scrambling the eggs.
Work rapidly: It ought to really feel virtually like one clean movement the place you add a bit warmth to the eggs, then instantly whisk these in with the remaining.
Storage and Reheating Directions
Refrigerate leftovers by tenting the pie plate with aluminum foil to maintain from squishing the piped designs, or cowl with plastic wrap. It’ll keep contemporary within the fridge for as much as 3 days.
After just a few days within the fridge, your lemon custard could begin to separate and a transparent liquid begins showing in your pie plate. It is a signal that your pie is beginning to flip and is not contemporary.
