4-Ingredient Simple Lemon Curd Recipe

This is an easy Lemon Curd recipe for beginners in baking. Make a jar of Lemon Curd and enjoy it with your favorite dessert as a tangy topping

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Dessert Recipes, Lemon Recipes

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Total Time 20

For this first we would need to set up a Double Boiler. Place a glass bowl over a pot of boiling water. The bowl has to be heat-proof and the water boiling underneath should not touch the base of the bowl at all. It is the steam which does the magic!
Put the butter and sugar in the bowl. Whisk it, till it becomes smooth and the sugar has been completely dissolved.
Now add the lemon juice and the zest, and give it a nice stir.
It is advised not to add the egg directly into the butter-sugar mixture. Beat it separately in a bowl and gently add it to the sugar-butter mixture while constantly whisking it. Keep doing so for next 15-20 minutes or till you get a gooey consistency.
Take it off the steam, and let it cool down to the normal room temperature before using it for frosting your cake. You may store it to your refrigerator for using it in future.