Lemon pastry cream suitable for filling cakes, pastries, snacks, éclairs, cannoli, or to be eaten as a dessert by the spoon. The lemon cream is prepared in a short time and can also be stored in the refrigerator for a few days. This lemon cream for filling is ideal to prepare the LEMON CREAM TART or the APPLE AND GRANDMA’S CREAM TART. I recommend you also look at my other pastry cream recipes, all suitable for filling cakes, or to be eaten as a dessert by the spoon. Now let’s see how to make the lemon pastry cream and if you try it let me know. Barbara
Here are some other delicious pastry cream recipes I recommend trying:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Inexpensive
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: approximately 2 cups
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for making Lemon Pastry Cream
- 2 Egg yolks
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/4 cup Cornstarch (or flour)
- 2 cups Milk (or plant-based milk)
- 1 Lemon
How to make Lemon Pastry Cream
Let’s start preparing the Lemon Pastry Cream by pouring the yolks into a saucepan large enough to later contain all the milk.
Add the sugar to the yolks and beat them with a whisk, by hand or with an electric mixer, for a couple of minutes to make them fluffy. Then add the sifted cornstarch or flour, if you don’t have cornstarch, and keep mixing with the whisk to eliminate any lumps.
Add half of the milk, the grated lemon peel, and mix in a way that does not form lumps, then add the remaining milk. Put it on the heat and keep stirring, otherwise it will stick to the bottom. Within a couple of minutes, you will see that the pastry cream will start to thicken, keep stirring until completely thickened.
Remove from the heat, pour the lemon cream onto a plate or into a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, making it adhere well to the cream and let it cool at room temperature; this way, the Lemon Pastry Cream will not form a skin. Then store the cream in the refrigerator.
How to store Lemon Pastry Cream
The Lemon Pastry Cream can be stored in the refrigerator for 2/3 days
