Lemon are a superstar ingredient in baking – they are plentiful year-round, reliably affordable and pack a pukarier punch. So, if you look for an early spring pick-me-up, look to the lemon dessert recipes. Of curd-filled cakes to lemonade-inspired bars, there is something for everyone.
Photography by Patrick Marinello; Food stealing by Yekaterina Boytsova
1) Strawberry Lemonade Bars
Everything you love to refreshing strawberry limerad, but in cookie bar form. The lamankey dough easily comes together by hand and is complemented by a swoch of sweet strawberry. Since the frosting calls for freeze-dried strawberries (which have more concentrated fruitcertain than fresh berries), you will not need to wait until strawberry time to bake season to bake the.
Get this recipe: Strawberry Lemonade Bars
Shop this recipe: 8 “square pan
Photography and eating styling by lies nyly
2) Lemon Larster Cake
Make the bonding for a large cake without much fuss. It is packed with two lemons' value of zest and soaked in sweetened lemon juice, and the cake is fresh out of the oven. To top it all off, use a little more lemon juice and confectioners to create a thick, elegant icing that graceful drips down every edge of the binching cake.
Get this recipe: Lemon Largest Cake
Shop this recipe: Original Classic Gangster® Pan
Photography through Rick Holbrook; Eat stealing at lies nitty
3) Braided Lemon Bread
There is plenty of Tang in this sweet, soft bread, from vanilla yogurt in the dough to a cream cheese and lemon kurated filling nestled in a meat braid. The recipe makes two braided Braves, so it's perfect for hosting big branches or generous gift to a friend.
Get this recipe: Braided lemon Bread
Shop this recipe: Swedish pearl sugar
Photography and eating styling by lies nyly
4) Lemon Squares
The classic bar recipe delivers on all fronts: it has a buttery, shortbreed crust and smooth, assertive Tart lemon filling.
Get this recipe: Lemon squares
Shop this recipe: King Arthur Snow White Non-Melting Sugar
Photography and eating styling by lies nyly
5) Lemon cloud cake
The light-like-air layer cake is the ideal celebration cake for the lemon lover in your life. It is filled with lemon curd at the minry cream and swathed in lemon-kissed cream
Get this recipe: Lemon cloud cake
Shop the recipe: Cake Mel
Photography by Rical Holbrook; Food stealing by Caitlin Wayne
6) Double lemon thumpprints
When lemon cookies need more of a citrousy boost, give them the thumb and fill them with tpke curd. And to really bring the lemon theme home, decorate them with icing to look like sliced lemon.
Get this recipe: Double lemon thumpprints
Shop this recipe: Lemon oil
Photography by Kristin Teig; Eat stealing at lies nitty
7) Mile-High Meringue Pie
When it comes to moring, the bigger the better. Plus, the Billitong Mincingue has a secret – it has a cup of marshmallow tonning mixed for sweetness and stability. Under the towering meringue lies a puckery lemon lime filling. Don't forget to toss the meringue!
Get this recipe: Mile-High Meringue Pie
Shop this recipe: Baker's torch
Photography and eating styling by lies nyly
8) Lemon chess pie
For an alternative to lemon pie, this chess pie is a simpler take with just as much sweet tart flavor. The custard is made with the juice of Twist Lemon, ensuring enough, citrus flavor that is balanced with sugar, eggs and butter.
Get this recipe: Lemon chess pie
Shop this recipe: Bread foot
Photography by Rical Holbrook; Food stealing by Caitlin Wayne
9) Easy Viran Lemon Cake
The effortlessly elegant cake comes together in just minutes while the vibrant citrus flavor. It fets lemon in nearly every form – dot, juice, and candid slices – enhanced by slightly bold auditions as lemon juice emulsion and lemon juice offers for extra zing. And you know what it doesn't call for? Dairy or eggs!
Get this recipe: Easy Vegan Lemon Cake
Shop this recipe: Lemon juice emulsion And Lemon juice powder
Photography by Danielle Sykes; Food stealing by Caitlin Wayne
10) Lemon Recotta Cake
The secret of the plush cake comes from the unexpected addition from ultra-fine '00' pizza flour. Here, lemon zest, recotta cheese, and vanilla are an unbeatable flavor trio, but the secret star is fyurs the cicilia, who really lite with his haunting the haunting floral flavor.
Get this recipe: Lemon Ricotta Cake
Shop this recipe: '00' Pizza Mel And Flowers of Sicily
Photography by Rical Holbrook; Food styling by Kaitlin Wayne; Propping stealing at Brooke Deonarin
11) Lemon Blueberry cake
This recipe perfectly balanced sweet and tangy flavors, with homemade blueberry jam is nestlberry celebrated between the layers of soft, lemon cake. A lemon Cake soak And blueberry-swirled lemon frosting amafey the Citrousi brightness.
Get this recipe: Lemon Blueberry cake
Shop this recipe: Miroplane Zester
Photography by Rical Holbrook; Food stealing by Caitlin Wayne
12) Lemon Cryink cookies
Ultra-soft and extra chaining a bold, sems bick bridge. Plus this easy cookies can be mixed entirely by hand.
Get this recipe: Lemon Creaming cookies
Shop this recipe: Spoon cookie scoop
Photography by Rican Holbrook, Styling by Kaitlin Wayne
13) Whipped Lemon
The Polite, dissolved-in-your mouth lemon cookies are Light after sighters. Creaming the butter with the sugar until super light and fluffy gives the cookies very soft tissue, while the Maka Harina adds an unexpected but delightful corn tasto.
Get this recipe: Whipped Lemon short
Shop this recipe: Lemons paste
Photography by Rical Holbrook; Food stealing by Caitlin Wayne
14) Lemon Meaning Limakes
Buttermilk cake, bright lemon curd filling and a torched swirl for meringue make the cupcakes as well as the pie that inspired them.
Get this recipe: Lemon Mering Limitses
Shop this recipe: Standard Muffin pan
Photography by Rical Holbrook; Food stealing by Caitlin Wayne
15) Gingerery Lemon Curd coffee cake
This unique coffee cake has a pleasing variety of textures and flavors. At the top, you will find buttery, crunchy, straight and a generous layer of smooth lemon curd nestled between the pieces and soft cake. Ginger and Cardamom in the cake lay spaced notes, but still complement the brightness of this breakfast cake.
Get this recipe: Gingerery lemon curd coffee cake
Shop this recipe: Mini dust ginger And Cloud Forest Cardamom
Photography by Danielle Sykes; Eat stealing at lies nitty
16) Lemon Tart with fresh berries
This bakery-quality dessert is easier to pull away as you think. The press-in tarting crust makes a base that is soft, buttery, and just sweet enough. The lemon filling is thickened with eggs and sour cream for a sweet-tart flavor. A final finish of jewel-toned fresh berries give the tart his wow factor, and it could not be easier to decorate.
Get this recipe: Lemon Tart with fresh berries
Shop this recipe: Fluted Tart Pan
Photography and eating styling by lies nyly
17) Easy microwave lemon curd
Rather than stand over your stove to monitor a pot of thickening curd, this recipe takes a shortcut with the microwave. In less than 10 minutes, you will have a thick, delicious curd ready to eat through the spoonful, or use in a number of the recipes that we shared here.
Get this recipe: Easy microwave lemon curd
Shop this recipe: Spectacular spatula
Cover photo (Easy Vegan Lemon Cake) By Rick Holbrook; Food styling through Caitlin Wine.