Citrus Seduction

4 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 cup lemon juice, with zest
  • 8 ounces sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 3 ounces butter

Directions

  1. 1
    Repeat the above ingredients for the lime curd, switching lemon juice for lime and add 2 drops of green food color.
  2. 2
    Whisk the whole eggs with the sugar, add the juice, place in a heavy-bottom saucepan and slowly bring to the boil.
  3. 3
    Allow to boil for one minute, keep stirring all the time, remove from heat and pass through a fine sieve, add in the zest and the butter and stir until the butter has dissolved, allow to cool at room temperature and then chill overnight in the refrigerator.
  4. 4
    To make this recipe easy you can use store bought cookies for the layers, use whatever is your favourite, but make sure they are crunchy.
  5. 5
    If you like soft cookies, break them into pieces first and re-bake for 10 minutes in a warm oven until crisp.
  6. 6
    For assembly you will need 1 pint heavy whipping cream whipped until soft peaks appear.
  7. 7
    Create layers using lemon and lime curds, broken cookies and fresh cream, garnish with chocolate shavings.

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