Taste & Create: Lemon Curd Cookies
Taste & Create is a blogging event in which you are randomly paired up with another particpant, and each of you try a recipe from the other’s food blog. I was paired with the talented Cherrapeño. I immediately started looking for a recipe I wanted to try. Everything looks so good!! Hubby has a coworker who loves lemon, so the Lemon Curd Cookies caught my eye. I made my first lemon curd back in January and loved it.
Lemon Curd Cookies – from Cherrapeño – Adapted from The Guardian Weekend by Dan Lepard – makes ~2 dozen
I used this calculator to get my grams to cups/Tbsp conversion.
Topping:
50g (10 Tbsp) rolled oats
50g (4 Tbsp) double cream
100g good lemon curd – I made my own using this recipe – I used 1/2 cup
Base:
100g (1/2 cup) caster sugar
100g (8 Tbsp) unsalted butter, softened
zest of 1 lemon
150g (1 1/2 cup) plain flour
25g (2 tbsp) ground rice – I used organic brown rice flour
Measure the oats, cream and lemon curd into a small bowl and mix until combined. Cover the bowl with clingfilm until ready to use.
Mix the sugar and butter with the lemon zest for a couple of minutes until fluffy, then add the flour and ground rice, mix until you have a soft dough.
Roll into a cylinder about 5cm by 20cm long and wrap in cling film. Chill for at least an hour until firm.
Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4-5, line a large baking sheet with baking parchment and slice the dough into 1½cm discs. They may crumble as you cut them but you can just press the dough back together again. Space them well apart as they will spread a bit.
Spoon a teaspoon of the oaty/lemon mixture on each circle of dough and spread it to the edges.
Bake for 20-30 minutes or until the cookies have just risen and the tops are browning. Cool for a few minutes until placing on a wire rack to go cold.
I had some problems with the cookie dough. I’m not sure if it was because my conversions were off or what. When I followed the directions, after the dough came out of the fridge for an hour, it crumbled horribly. I couldn’t get it to stick together at all. It was quite crumbly when I wrapped it up but I thought it would solidify while chilling.
I ended up adding 1/2 cup soy milk to the mixture and mixed it up and re-chilled it. This helped tremendously. I was able to slice the dough once it was chilled for another hour.
My cookies didn’t spread or rise too much. But they did taste great. They also aren’t that pretty. I’m convinced that desserts that look good taste better. It’s a mental thing. Hubby even commented that the bad thing about these cookies is that they’re kinda dull looking. BUT, everyone at our family get together loved these cookies and I didn’t bring any home.
The lemon curd recipe was also taken from Cherrapeño. This lemon curd recipe was very simple to make. It was very lemony and tangy. This recipe was easy to make since it used whole eggs.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
This looks just plain amazing…and I’m not even a huge chocolate fan! The different textures must be delectable — good thing Valentine’s Day is coming up =)
This looks like my favorite cake I’ve never tried. Yum! After reading the directions, it seems like you could reduce the prep time by simply preparing the brownie batter first and setting it aside while prepping the cake batter, and then baking them at the same time. Either way, I am putting this on my “MUSTS!” list. Thanks for sharing.
Wow!! That looks amazing. It would make a great chocolage indulgence for Valentine’s Day.
WOW! That looks amazing! I love the filling. I’m starring to try for sure. Chocolate cake is always a big winner with guests. 🙂
Mmmm….chocolate! Looks fantastic 🙂
Man, this cake is serious stuff!! I would love some of that! Thanks for all the tips on how to make it more efficiently.
Wow.
That is one amazing way to celebrate.
OMG That looks awesome. I wish I could take it out of the computer screen and eat it right now!!!
While I’m not a chocolate cake fan I have to say that is one delicious and impressive looking cake! Definitely makes wish I was into chocolate. 🙂
~ingrid
Did anyone count the calories? 😉
Thanks for sharing this recipe. I really feel hungry!
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Carsten
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Talk about death by chocolate! That looks incredible!
This is such a beautiful cake! I really want to give it a whirl. A lot of chocolate but totally worth it!
omg. this looks A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. can i get a piece right now please?!
wow. that looks amazing
Looks absolutely fabulous. Really wonderful photos too!
So glad I stumbled upon your blog.
🙂
ButterYum
beautiful cake! one can never be tired of Chocolate! and those strawberries steal the show!:)
Yummy! that would’ve have been a perfect finger food! love the cheesy texture:)
this would be perfect for the Valentine day giveaway I’m hosting on my blog. would be great if you could participate!
http://www.funandfoodcafe.com/2010/02/valentine-super-bowl-recipe-carnival.html
Is a cake like this even legal? This is going to be a most special addition in the KOL round up. Thanks for participating, Jen!
Wow!! Just the way the CHocorango likes! Kinda perfect!
When I made this, I almost went into a chocolate coma. But it was totally worth it!!!