Strawberry Curd for Cake
A delicious berry cream for your desserts! Strawberry curd is a traditional cream in English baking, used to soak or fill various cakes, pies, rolls, and other desserts. It's usually made with lemon. But you can also work berries into a curd — strawberries, for example. That makes the curd even more interesting and varied in flavor.
Mila
Recipe author
Strawberry Curd for Cake
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 %
4 g
Fats 35 %
13 g
Carbohydrates 54 %
20 g
189 kcal
GI:
15
/
0
/
85
- First you need to prepare the berries for the strawberry curd. Hull the strawberries, then rinse the berries thoroughly under running water and dry them in a colander. You can also use frozen strawberries for this dessert — in that case, take them out of the freezer and thaw them at room temperature first. Then put the strawberries in a blender and blend them to a purée. Press the resulting berry purée through a fine sieve. Put a piece of butter in a bowl, and set the bowl in a saucepan with a little water. Put the saucepan on the stove over low heat and set up a so-called double boiler. Melt the butter this way. Separately, crack the eggs into a bowl and add the sugar. Using a mixer or a regular whisk, beat the eggs with the sugar to a pale, fluffy foam. Then pour in the lemon juice and melted butter, and add the strawberry purée. Set the bowl with the mixture into the saucepan of water so the bottom of the bowl touches the water. Put the saucepan over low heat. Then cook the strawberry curd in the double boiler. Cook until the cream thickens, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon or spatula so no lumps form. As soon as the curd starts to thicken, take the saucepan off the heat, lift out the bowl, and cool the contents. Then cover the curd with plastic wrap pressed to the surface so the top doesn't dry out, and refrigerate it for a couple of hours to cool completely. After that, the strawberry curd is ready to use — fill a cake or pie with it, or use it as the base for a dessert. You can keep this curd in the fridge for 5 days. Enjoy!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Strawberries - 30 kcal/100g
- Fresh frozen sweet strawberries - 44 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Unsalted table butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Salted peasant butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Clarified butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Egg - 80 kcal/100g
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