How to Make Lemon Pie
Discover how to make lemon pie, and you'll have a dessert that reaches the perfect balance between tart and sweet.When choosing lemons, make sure they feel heavy (it means they're full of juice), have a relatively thin skin (so you know that weight is pulp, not thick rind), and are uniformly yellow. To get the most juice out of lemons, bring the fruit to room temperature and roll them firmly on the counter with the palm of your hand, pressing down on fruit and breaking up the internal membranes.
The zest (a.k.a. the rind or peel) of the lemon contains intense citrus flavor. When removing the zest with a grater or a microplane, only scrape the bright yellow part of the peel; the white part underneath (referred to as the pith) is very bitter.
While lemon is of course the star, there are a handful of other ingredients that make a lemon pie come together. Sugar and corn syrup balance the tartness; eggs provide volume; cream cheese adds creaminess; and cornstarch helps thicken the filling.
Transcript
-Hi everyone, I'm Judith. Well today, I'll be showing you
how to make a beautiful citrusy fresh and light lemon
dream pie. So, what you'll need for this is 1
package or 8 ounces of cream cheese, softened; 3/4 cup
of sugar, divided; 3 eggs, divided; 1 9-inch unbaked pie
crust; 3/4 cup of light corn syrup; 1/3 cup of
lemon juice; 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine melted, today,
we'll be using butter; 1 tablespoon of corn starch; 2
teaspoon of lemon peel grated; and whipped cream or whipped
topping, we'll be using whipped cream and some lovely fresh
berries. Alright, so first things first, we have preheated our
oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, so that is getting nice
hot for our pie. So, what we first wanna do
is add in this lovely soften cream cheese, so make
sure to take out the fridge before you start cooking
with it and let it get to room temperature to
soften. Into that, we'll add in a quarter of our
sugar. So, we've divided our sugar into 3 separate batches
because, we'll be using that 3 separate times, and we'll
add in 1 egg into our bowl there. So, with
your hand whisk or with your mixer, we're just gonna
put that on and we're gonna get all those ingredients
joined together. So, try and get all of the lumps
out of your mixture. So, it's nice soft, smooth and
creamy. You might have to go around the edges a
little beautiful, exactly how we want it, nice soft, creamy,
light, like so. So, let's get our pie crust right
here. Obviously, if you wanna make your own pie crust
at home, that's nice, but we have a nice prepared
one here and all we gonna do is put this
into the bottom of our pie crust, so this will
be the bottom layer, the lovely texture after it has
come out the oven. That's it. So, get your spatula
and you can spread that around nicely on the bottom
there like so, a lovely first layer for our lemon
dream pie. So, and you can use the same bowl
and will continue with the rest of our ingredients. So,
into this bowl our other quarter cup of sugar, our
lemon peel, corn starch is in there too. That's gonna
bind it together nicely. Corn syrup there, which will give
that lovely sweetness to the pie and actually helps with
the consistency too, the texture, that lovely lemon juice as
well and that's gonna be the baste of our lovely
smelling pie and the remaining 2 eggs go in there
too and this fantastic melted butter, alright, and we're gonna
give that a nice whisk altogether, great, so once that
is all bounded together nicely, we're gonna layer that on
top of our first layer, stir that in there, that's
very nice. Alright. Let's get pie [unk]. We can just
pour that over to the top there, beautiful, and you
can smell that lemon, citrusy smell from here. It's really,
really nice. Nice fresh dessert after a meal like so,
and we're just gonna top that with a little bit
of our remaining sugar, so on the top it goes
and cool it in, that should do it and not
too much. Alright, so there you go, how easy was
that? Now that goes in the oven at 350 degrees
Fahrenheit for 50 to 55 minutes until it is set.
Well, our lemon dream pie is ready. We let it
cool after being in the for about 55 minutes and
it's just about set now. It should be a little
bit squidgy still because it has a nice soft center.
So, we'll cut that open. Oh, lovely, and that smell
of citrus and lemon in the kitchen is just beautiful.
I'm gonna give myself a nice big piece there. I'm
gonna pick, and then you serve that with a little
bit of whip cream and berries and you're good to
go. So, if it's still oozing a little bit that's
alright. You might wanna leave it in the oven for
a little bit longer, but that's fine. Oh lovely. Actually
quite like when it's a little bit liquidy. Serve that
with a little bit of cream there, lovely and don't
forget some berries there with some nice strawberries to go
with that lemon beautifully. So, there you everyone, that is
how you make lemon dream pie.
What You'll Need
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar, divided
- 3 eggs, divided
- 1 9-inch unbaked pie crust
- 3/4 cup KaroŽ Light Corn Syrup
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons butter OR margarine, melted
- 1 tablespoon ArgoŽ OR KingsfordŽ Corn Starch
- 2 teaspoons freshly grated lemon peel
- Whipped cream OR whipped topping
- Fresh berries
Step By Step
1
PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees F.
2
BEAT cream cheese, 1/4 cup sugar and 1 egg with an electric mixer in a small bowl, until smooth. Spread evenly in bottom of pie crust.
3
USING same bowl, beat 1/4 cup sugar, remaining 2 eggs, corn syrup, lemon juice, butter, corn starch and grated lemon peel until well blended. Pour over cream cheese layer. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup sugar evenly over filling.
4
BAKE 50 to 55 minutes or until filling is puffed and set. Cool on wire rack. To serve, top with whipped cream.
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