Luscious Lemon Dessert For LiveSTRONG Day

It is 12 months since our dinner at Aria.  A lot has happened in the past twelve months and as much as I wanted to cook from  Matt's book  it didn't happen. Looking for a lemon based dessert last week  I found Matt had the perfect recipe.  I combined elements from  two dishes to create this dessert. 

Lemon Cream with Honey Tuiles and Blueberries

Honey Tuiles
40grams unsalted butter
50 grams icing sugar
85 grams honey
60 grams plain flour

Cream butter and sugar until thick and pale.
Mix in the honey, then stir through the flour.
Leave the mixture to rest for 1 hour at room temperature.
Preheat oven to 160C.
Line a baking tray with baking paper, then spread the mixture into six 6cm x 1mm rounds. (this is quite difficult and mine were probably a little thick)
Bake the tuiles for approx 10 minutes or until they are a deep golden colour. Leave to cool.
Any left over mixture will keep in the fridge for 2 weeks.

Lemon Cream
2 eggs
120 grams caster sugar
80 ml lemon juice, strained
finely grated zest of 2 lemons
150 grams unsalted butter, diced
200 grams thickened cream, whipped

Lightly mix the eggs and sugar in a bowl until sugar has dissolved; set aside.
Place the lemon juice and zest in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer, then remove from the heat and whisk in the egg mixture.
Return the saucepan to low heat and cook until the mixture thickens.
Take the saucepan off the heat and whisk in the butter piece by piece.
Leave to cool, then cover with plastic film and refrigerate. When ready to serve, fold in the whipped cream.

To Serve
Place Lemon Cream in a glass dish, top with blueberries and a Honey Tuile.  You could replace the blueberries with raspberries for an even better combination. Raspberries are wickedly expensive here sadly.

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Comments

[Rosemary in Utah]

Barbara, spreading this kind of cookie is a little easier if you use your finger (dip it in milk first)instead of trying to use the back of a spoon, or a knife.
Lemon & blueberry,
lemon & honey--
2 perfect pairs make 1 great trio.

[barbara]

Thanks Rosemary. I have some mixture left over and will try it.

[Bron]

looks yummy

[Mary]

Mmm. I love luscious lemony desserts. The timing couldn't be better, the tree in the back is bowed over with bounty AND my bracelet arrived this morning as well!
Thank you Barbara,

[Joey]

This looks like a heavenly dessert! Love those honey tuiles...I can imagine tucking those into a lot of things! :)

Raspberries AND blueberries as expensive here...maybe I can put some mango? :)

[The Culinary Chase]

YUM! Lemon & blueberries are a favorite mix for me. Cheers!

[michelle @ the smackdown]

mmm, i love lemons and blueberries together.

if you beat some mascarpone into the lemon curd before mixing in the whipping cream, you'd have a lovely lemon mousse!

[arfi]

i was thinking to make lemon and rhubarb gelato. the lemon cream sounds tangy and easy to make!

[toontz]

After seeing all these lemon recipes for Taste of Yellow it seems that Lemon is all I can think about! This looks absolutely delicious, I cannot wait to try it.