If you like lemon desserts then you will LOVE this lemon curd recipe. It tastes wonderfully creamy, tangy, sweet, and delicious. Homemade lemon curd tastes way better than store-bought and is made with only 4 ingredients and a few minutes of your time.
Ingredients
5egg yolks
1cupwhite sugar
4lemons, zest and juice
½cupbutter, cut into small pieces
Instructions
Add 2 inches of water to the bottom of a double boiler. Bring it to a boil then reduce the heat to medium-low.
In the top pot of the double boiler (before you put it on the heat) add egg yolks, sugar, lemon zest, and lemon juice and whisk until it's smooth.
5 egg yolks, 1 cup white sugar, 4 lemons
Put the pot on top of the pot with the simmering water and whisk slowly but constantly for 8-10 minutes, until the lemon curd thickens. Remove from the pot from the heat and whisk in the butter - the heat from the lemon curd will melt the butter.
½ cup butter
Pour the lemon curd into a clean glass jar and place a piece of parchment paper directly on the surface of the curd - this will prevent a skin from forming. Once the curd is cool, you can remove it. Refrigerate the lemon curd for up to 10 days.