That is the pie for lemon lovers! The filling is easy, silky, and full of 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 easy, silky, and tangy filling filled with lemon taste.
- Stabilized whipped cream that you could both unfold on prime 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.
All the 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 mix of lemon zest and lemon juice. This provides you with a vibrant, recent taste. And don’t fear, it gained’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 complete milk or 2%.
- Lemon Zest: Make sure you 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: Should 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 home made honey shortbread crust. Simply ensure that it’s cooked and able to go earlier than including the filling.
- Unflavored Gelatin: Offered within the baking aisle. You’ll have to 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 home made pastry pie crust, or go utterly no-bake with a graham cracker crust. One in all 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. It will likely be scrumptious irrespective of which you select!
A store-bought pie crust is at all times a fantastic handy choice 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 have to make sure you put together the crust and bake forward in accordance with the package deal instructions.
End Appears: The Topping
For the simplest basic choice, simply unfold it on prime! Use a spatula or the again of a spoon to create easy swirls or peaks.
To pipe the whipped cream, switch every little 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 type a decent swirl, transferring from the middle outward in a round movement. Launch the strain 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 recent lemon combination. It may possibly sound a bit of tough, however I promise it’s simple when you perceive what you’re presupposed to do.
Have every little 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: Maintain 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 easy movement the place you add a bit of 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 is going to keep recent within the fridge for as much as 3 days.
After a couple of days within the fridge, your lemon custard might begin to separate and a transparent liquid begins showing in your pie plate. This can be a signal that your pie is beginning to flip and is not recent.