How To Make A Delicious Lemon Cream Pie?

It doesn’t have to be difficult to make a delicious lemon cream pie yourself.

It is very versatile and easy to combine with other ingredients. You can also add them to desserts, drinks, salads and sauces. It is always a great experience to eat lemon. Lemons contain calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, citric acid, bioflavonoids and pectin, all of which are good for the immune system.

lemon cream pie

Ingredients for the bottom

• a pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 100 grams of sugar
• 80 ml milk
• 60 grams of butter
• 50 grams baking powder
• 10 grams grated lemon zest

Ingredients for the filling

• 25 grams of sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 50 grams of butter
• 60 ml lemon juice
• 10 grams cornflour

Instructions for making the filling

• First, mix the butter and sugar in a bowl, then add the lemon juice.
• Then heat it in a saucepan over low heat until the sugar dissolves.
• Dissolve the cornflour in a spoonful of water or lemon juice and add the eggs.
• Then heat this mixture while stirring without bringing it to a boil.
• Then set it aside and let it cool.

Instructions for making the bottom

• First preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
• Sift the flour and baking powder, then add the salt and sugar.
• Then add the butter and mix it with a mixer or food processor.
• Then add the egg, milk and lemon zest.
• Then divide the dough into two equal parts. Then place both parts on a flat surface sprinkled with flour and roll out.

• Grease a 26 cm cake tin and cover with one of the parts.
• Then pour the filling into the mold and cover with the other part. Make sure that the parts of dough are well together and cut off the excess.
• Bake the lemon cream pie for 35 minutes.

Cold lemon cream pie

Ingredients for the lemon cream

• the zest of two lemons
• 100 grams of sugar
• 3 medium eggs
• 150 ml lemon juice
• 150 ml whipping cream (unwhipped)

Ingredients for the bottom

• 10ml water
• 150 grams of flour
• 25 grams of sugar
• 125 grams of butter

Instructions for making the lemon cream

• Combine the eggs, lemon zest and sugar in a bowl. Beat with a mixer or by hand until a foamy mixture is formed.
• Add the whipped cream and keep mixing.
• Then add the lemon juice and mix until well blended.
• Set it aside.

Instructions for making the bottom

• First preheat the oven to 190 ° C.
• Mix the flour and sugar in a large bowl. Add the butter in pieces and knead with your fingers until a sticky dough forms.
• Add a little water to the mixture and stir until it forms a ball. Wrap this ball in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for half an hour.
• Sprinkle flour on a flat surface and roll out the dough from the center to the end, turning it 90 degrees at a time, until it is even thick throughout.

• Then use a rolling pin to flatten the dough until you have a 32 cm circle.
• Grease a cake tin and place the dough in it, pressing it well against the bottom and sides.
• Poke a few holes in the bottom with a fork, and put in the fridge for another half hour.
• Cover the dough with a layer of baking paper and blind baking filling, such as rice or ceramic beans. Bake it for 15 minutes.
• Then remove the blind baking filling and baking paper and bake for another 15 minutes.
• Then pour the filling into the mold and bake for another 20 minutes at the same temperature.
• Remove the lemon cream pie from the oven and let it cool until the pie is at room temperature. Then put it in the fridge to cool down further.

• Before serving, dust the lemon cream pie with powdered sugar.