Lemonade – Refreshing Desserts For
Summer Palates
It’s
hot, you’re hot and you are berried and peached-out. What
are you going to make that refreshes and invigorates the palate?
Lemony things! Isn’t that why they call it lemon aid?
Growing up, I always heard ‘isn’t it refreshing’
as the ultimate compliment you could give a dessert, that wasn’t
fruit salad (which by its nature is already refreshing). Since
then, I am always on the look out for spectacular lemon recipes
that deliver a real jolt of lemon. Nothing insipid and lemon flavored
– I want my lemon desserts to make my taste testers sit
up and notice. These recipes do just that. I also use citric acid,
or as it is known in the kosher kitchen, sour salts or tartaric
acid – an ingredient you can get from Penzey’s or
in kosher food stores. Citric acid or sour salts, even when used
sparingly, offer a ton of extra acidic dimension to any lemon
recipe.
Summer is just the time to test run some new lemon bites. Here
are a slew of tangy wonders to revive you.
Lemony
Bundt Cake
Tall, moist, majestic – this cake needs bragging rights.
The Bundt © cake pan was invented by the Nordicware Company
in response to a trio of Hadassah Ladies who asked David Dalquist,
to replicate their Old Country ‘boondt’ pan. It was
1946; the rest is history. Nothing says ‘we’re having
a celebration’ than the word ‘Bundt cake’.
Blueberry
Lemon Loaf
Summer berries update the classic lemon loaf. This is richer
than a quick bread; rather like a muffin in a lofty loaf.
Lemon
Butter Cookies With White Chocolate Glaze
Adding lemon extract to the white chocolate makes these a
double lemon punch….but it’s a mellow yellow in this
case. Grinding the sugar a bit finer, with the zest, is as trick
that helps distribute the perfume of the lemon throughout the
cookie.
