Lemon desserts include pies, tarts, cheesecakes, cookies, souffles, and sherbets. Lemon meringue pie is the most popular, but there are many other variations such as lemon almond tarts and lemon cranberry bars. Lemon cakes can be made with different textures and frostings, while cheesecakes and cookies also incorporate lemon flavor. Lemon sorbet is a refreshing dessert option.
The different types of lemon desserts include pie, tarts, pies, cheesecakes, cookies, souffles, and sherbets. Lemon is a popular and refreshing taste in dessert selections as it can lend an interesting tartness to complement the sweetness of most desserts. Of all the different dessert options made with this citrus fruit, lemon meringue pie is perhaps the best known.
With a bottom pie crust, layer of lemon filling, and fluffy peaked meringue topping, Lemon Meringue Pie is popular and easy to make. As a variant of a large round cake, tarts or lemon meringue squares can also be made. The filling made from lemon juice, zest or zest and sugar, egg yolks, water and flour is also the basis of many other lemon desserts.
For example, lemon almond tarts often have one layer of filling plus one with an almond flavor. A lemon or almond glaze plus ground almonds can top off these dessert bars. Another type of lemon dessert has a lemon cranberry filling with a crumbly cookie crust top and bottom. There are also many types of possible lemon desserts in bar or tart form, including those with lemon custard.
The different types of lemon cakes are particularly varied. There are recipes for loaves with a rough, bread-like texture that can add cherries or poppy seeds. Lemon pound cakes are more delicate, but dense. A lemon cake is a sweet one-layer dessert that can have lemon buttercream frosting. The same icing could be used to fill and frost a layer cake version, but the lemon cake filling could also be spread over each of the layers. Lemon cream cheese is used to glaze some types of lemon desserts, such as moist cakes and custard fillings.
Cheesecakes may only contain lemon for flavoring or other fruit such as blueberries. Blueberry lemon swirl cheesecakes can look really appealing with their contrast of light and dark slices of cake swirled together. Lemon desserts in cookie form include “thumbprint” versions where you indent to add the filling. The juice and peel or zest are usually added to the cookie batter with the lemon filling used to fill in the fingerprint indentation. Lemon wafers as an alternative to the vanilla or chocolate versions are often available in stores.
Soufflés prepare light and airy lemon cakes with a delicate texture. Lemon sorbet is a popular type of dessert ice. These lemon desserts can be garnished with berries for added flavor and color.
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