Lemon Curd Archives - A Side of Sweet

Lemon Curd Tart Recipe with Olive Oil Crust

A lemon curd tart recipe baked in a delicious olive oil tart shell made with Spanish olive oil. Plus, everything you need to know about choosing, storing and tasting olive oil.

You really can’t go wrong with lemon curd. Right now our lemon tree is producing like crazy, providing us with a bounty of lemons to use. We’ve been eating lemon curd by the gallon. Although I love spooning it on homemade yogurt, my new favorite thing is making baking it into this lemon curd tart. For this recipe, a traditional tart crust gets a delicious twist with tart dough made with olive oil. And for a plot twist – the lemon curd also uses olive oil instead of butter!

Intrigued? Read on…

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Lemon Tartlets with Lemon Curd

Nut Free Vegetarian

An easy recipe for lemon tartlets with lemon curd. Sweet pastry shells make the perfect container for the best lemon curd ever – it’s so silky and smooth.

As Spring approaches, I just wanted to squeeze (no pun intended!) in one more lemon recipe! This was another recipe that I shared at a recent dessert night (remember those lemon curd pavlovas?).

You’re telling me you don’t have dessert nights? You should definitely make them a regular thing – there’s nothing better than catching up with friends over sweet treats…. Read More »

Lemon Lavender Tarts + Bouchon Pâte Sucrée

Lemon Tarts get a fragrant upgrade with the addition of lavender oil to the lemon curd. Bouchon Bakery’s Pâte Sucrée tart dough makes the perfect tart shells.

Love them or hate them, food blogs have changed the way we cook. Everyone I know has at least one or two food blogs that they go to for recipe inspiration. As with anything that has such a massive impact, they are going to come with their critics. Two such articles caught my eye recently, talking about food bloggers and their cliches.

The New Yorker published a humor piece last week that was written in the voice of a food blogger. It touched on a lot of blogger cliches, from our intent to use cauliflower in every dish imaginable to the practice of providing ingredient and step-by-step photos. It portrayed food bloggers as silly, morally-superior, red wine-guzzling sentimentalists. It’s hard to know if the writer was laughing with, or laughing at, food bloggers, but I have a hunch she was laughing at us…. Read More »

Lemon Curd Stuffed Cupcakes + Lemon Buttercream

Nut Free Vegetarian

A recipe for perfect vanilla cupcakes stuffed with lemon curd and topped with lemon buttercream. Your new favorite dessert and heaven in every bite!

This recipe features the lightest and most perfect vanilla cupcake recipe I’ve ever tasted. Seriously. They are the starting point for almost every cupcake I make! The best part? They are SO easy. No ‘room temperature eggs’ or fancy ingredients.

The vanilla cupcake serves as the perfect vessel for the silky lemon curd filling and light and slightly tart lemon buttercream frosting. The combination of the three components is absolute perfection.

Read on for the recipe for lemon cupcakes with lemon curd filling!

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Mini Pavlovas for Four with Lemon Curd

Gluten Free

I’ve had lemons on the brain lately. I mean, it’s hard not to with a backyard lemon tree brimming with possibilities in the form of bright yellow orbs of deliciousness.

Coming from the midwest where a lemon means a trip to the grocery store, I just can’t bear to waste a single one. Our kitchen has been positively overflowing with lemon desserts these days. So much so that I had to invite some friends over to help me eat them all, including the mini pavlovas with lemon curd recipe you find below. But that’s a story for a different day or a different blog post at least!… Read More »