Raspberry Curd Food

RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• Sieve raspberries through a strainer, pressing with the back of a spoon; reserve 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon juice. Discard seeds in sieve. , In a saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch; add raspberry juice and butter. Cook and stir until thick and bubbly. In a small bowl, beat egg yolks until well blended. Stir in half of the raspberry mixture. Return all to saucepan; bring to a gently boil. Cook and stir 2 minutes. , Place into small jars; place plastic wrap on surface of curd. Cover and chill. Store in the refrigerator.

EASY RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• Combine raspberries and sugar in a high-powered blender (such as Vitamix®).
• Carefully crack eggs into a small glass bowl, making sure no pieces of shell fall into the bowl. Pour eggs into the blender with the raspberry mixture. Cover and blend on low Variable 1, quickly adjusting to Variable 10. Blend on high speed for 1 minute.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Pour in raspberry mixture through a sieve. Add lemon juice. Cook and stir until curd thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon, about 5 minutes.

RASPBERRY-GRAPEFRUIT CURD

Steps:

• Puree the raspberries and grapefruit juice in a blender. Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium saucepan, pushing it through with a rubber spatula. Rinse the sieve.
• Whisk the sugar, cornstarch, grapefruit zest and salt into the raspberry puree. Whisk in the egg yolks. Cook the mixture over medium heat, whisking constantly, until it¿s thick like pudding, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter a few pieces at a time until incorporated.
• Strain the mixture through the sieve into a small bowl, pushing it through with a rubber spatula. Press plastic wrap directly onto the surface to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate until completely set, at least 4 hours and up to 5 days.

RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, off heat, whisk together sugar, zest, and egg yolks; whisk in lemon juice and salt.
• Add butter and place pan over medium-high heat. Cook, whisking constantly, until butter has melted, mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, and small bubbles form around the edge of pan, about 5 minutes (do not boil).
• Remove pan from heat while continuing to whisk. In a blender, puree 1 cup raspberries. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids. Fold raspberry puree into cooled curd. Press plastic wrap against the surface of curd and refrigerate until cool.

FRESH RASPBERRY LEMON CURD TART

Steps:

• Thaw puff pastry for 1 hour in room temperature, until defrosted, or in the refrigerator overnight.
• Prepare the Lemon Curd. Heat a small saucepan on medium-low heat. Add lemon juice, zest, sugar, and eggs and whisk together until sugar melts into the mix. Add butter and whisk regularly. The lemon curd should begin to thicken and small bubbles will begin to form on the surface, about 6-8 minutes. Remove from heat once the lemon curd is thick enough for the whisk to leave marks on the surface.
• Transfer the lemon curd into another bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 1 hour, or until the lemon curd is cold.
• In the meantime, prepare the puff pastry. Roll out the puff pastry to about 10 inches by 14 inches.
• Bake at 425 degrees F for 8-10 minutes, until the pastry is puffed. Decrease temperature to 375 degrees F and continue baking until the pastry is crisp and golden-brown, about 5-7 minutes. Cool for 3 minutes.
• Layer the cooled lemon curd onto the top of the tart. Top the tart with raspberries. Dust with a light coating of confectioner's sugar on top and a small sprinkling of lemon zest. Serve immediately. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.

LUSCIOUS RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat; add in the raspberries, egg yolks, sugar, and salt.
• Cook, mashing the berries and stirring frequently at first and then constantly at the end, until thickened-about 10 minutes.
• Pour the mixture through a coarse strainer set over a bowl, pressing hard on the solids to extract as much liquid as possible.
• Cool to room temperature; the curd will continue to thicken as it cools.
• Stir in lemon juice, to taste.
• Refrigerate, covered, until ready to serve, or up to 1 month.

HOMEMADE RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• In a saucepan combine raspberries, sugar, eggs and salt. Place saucepan on burner and turn to medium heat. While sitting next to or standing over stove, continually whisk mixture for 15 minutes. I always set my timer. After about 8 minutes the mixture will begin to thicken. Keep whisking. You are preventing the eggs from curdling and keeping the ingredients smooth and creamy. After 15 minutes, remove from heat and add butter 2 tablespoons at a time. Whisk until melted and then add 2 more. Continue this until all butter is added and melted. Pour mixture into a bowl using a fine mesh strainer. Strain out raspberry seeds and any cooked egg. If using chilled curd, cover curd and place in fridge for at least 3 hours. If baking curd in a dish, you can use immediately. Curd will continue to thicken as it cools.

LEMON RASPBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C. Line the bottom of two 8 inch pans with parchment paper and butter and dust the sides. Set aside for later.
• Carefully peel the yellow peel of two lemons. Try to avoid the white pith on the lemons.
• Place the sugar and lemon peel in a food processor, and process until the peel is finely minced.
• Place the lemon sugar in a large bowl.
• Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into the same bowl with the sugar. Whisk to combine. These are the dry ingredients.
• Place the melted butter, oil, vanilla, eggs, and lemon juice in a large jug. Whisk to combine well. These are the wet ingredients.
• Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until they are well-mixed. Take care not to over-mix the batter however.
• Add the hot milk and stir until fully incorporated.
• Divide the batter between the two 8 inch pans (about 18 oz / 515 g of batter for each pan).
• Bake in the center of your oven for 25 minutes, rotating the cake pans once, halfway through the baking time. A toothpick inserted into the middle should come out clean when the cake is baked.
• Remove from the oven and let them cool for a few minutes. Flip the cakes over onto a cooling rack and let them cool completely.
• Once the cakes have cooled down completely, cut any uneven surfaces to make the cake tops smooth and evenly-tall.
• Make 1 batch of lemon curd according to the recipe here. Let it refrigerate overnight.
• Put 2 - 3 paper towels on a plate and spread the frozen raspberries on them. Keep the plate in the fridge overnight to let the raspberries thaw out and soften. Excess moisture will be absorbed by the paper towels.
• Crush the raspberries (they will be soft enough for this), and measure about ⅓ cup of the packed raspberry "puree". Transfer this into a bowl and mix 2 tsp of cornstarch into the raspberry. Set aside.
• Place the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer. With a whisk attachment, whip the butter until creamy and white in color, for about 3 - 5 minutes, on high speed (not maximum speed). Make sure to scrape down the sides as you go, so that all the butter is whisked.
• Add the salt and vanilla, and whisk further until the butter-cream mix is light and fluffy (for a couple of minutes).
• Lower the speed and add the 14 oz of the confectioner's sugar, a little at a time, and incorporate all the sugar into the butter-cream mix. Make sure to scrape down the sides as you go.
• When the sugar has incorporated into the butter, increase the speed and whisk on high for about 2 - 3 minutes until the frosting is lightly fluffy and soft. In the final minute, add the raspberry-cornstarch mix, and mix it into the frosting.
• Optional - before mixing the raspberry into the frosting, remove about ¾ cup of the plain frosting and color it with a little yellow food coloring to create an ombre look for later.
• Place the raspberry buttercream in a large piping bag with a 1 cm round piping tip attached.
• Place 1 cake layer on a serving tray. Make sure the top of the cake is facing up.
• Pipe raspberry buttercream along the edge of the cake to create a "wall" of raspberry frosting. Fill the middle with lemon curd and spread evenly.
• Place a row of fresh raspberries on the lemon curd, along the edge (optional).
• Top with the second cake layer (with the top of the cake facing down this time, so that you have a very leveled surface on top).
• Apply a very thin crumb coat on the cake with the buttercream. You can use raspberry buttercream or plain buttercream for this purpose (I used plain buttercream for the cake in this post). Make sure to have straight sides and a clean surface on the top of the cake.
• Refrigerate for about one hour (or freeze for a few minutes) until the crumb coating has set.
• Frost the cake over the crumb coating with the raspberry buttercream frosting. Using an offset spatula, make the surfaces smooth. Optionally, you can apply dots of yellow buttercream and create an ombre look as well.
• Top the cake with buttercream swirls. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

GENOISE WITH RASPBERRY CURD FILLING

Steps:

• Make the cakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 8-by-2-inch round baking pans; line bottoms with parchment paper rounds. Butter parchment; dust pans with flour, tapping out excess.
• In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium-high heat until nut-brown in color, about 8 minutes. Remove pan from heat and pour butter into a large bowl, leaving behind any burned sediment; stir in vanilla and keep warm (110 to 120 degrees). Wipe out saucepan.
• Fill the same saucepan with a few inches of water and bring to a simmer. Lightly whisk together eggs and superfine sugar in a heatproof standing mixer bowl. Set bowl over (not in) simmering water, and whisk until superfine sugar dissolves and mixture is lukewarm to the touch.
• Attach bowl to standing mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and whisk on high speed until light, airy, and quadruple in volume, at least 5 minutes. Whisk 1 cup egg mixture into warm butter mixture.
• Sift together flour and cornstarch. Gently and quickly fold half the flour mixture into remaining egg mixture until combined, then repeat with remaining flour mixture. Gently fold in butter mixture, then divide between prepared baking pans.
• Transfer pans to oven and bake until golden brown and edges begin to pull away from the sides, about 25 minutes. (Avoid opening oven door during baking, as cakes are fragile and may collapse.) Remove cakes from oven and unmold immediately onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• Make the raspberry curd filling: In a small food processor, puree raspberries until smooth.
• Whisk together granulated sugar and cornstarch in a medium saucepan. Whisk in zest and egg yolks, then whisk in lemon juice and salt. Add butter and place pan over medium-high heat. Cook, whisking constantly, until butter has melted, small bubbles form around the edge of the pan, and mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon and becomes clear, about 5 minutes.
• Remove pan from heat. Whisk in raspberry puree. Strain mixture through a fine mesh sieve into a glass bowl. Press plastic wrap directly onto surface of curd and refrigerate until cool, about 30 minutes.
• Assemble the cake: Using a serrated knife, halve each cooled cake horizontally to form 2 layers. Place 1 layer on a cake turntable or serving platter; spread a scant 1/2 cup curd on top. Set another cake layer on top, and repeat process with remaining curd and cake layers. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Make the whipped cream: Whisk cream and confectioners' sugar to soft peaks. Spread entire cake with whipped cream, smoothing the top and sides. Top with raspberries, if desired.

RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• To set up the bottom of a double boiler, bring an inch of water to a gentle simmer on medium heat in a medium saucepan.
• Place the raspberries in a resealable plastic bag or small bowl and crush them.
• Whisk together the eggs, sugar, salt, and lemon zest in a medium metal or glass bowl. The bowl will be used as the top of the double boiler. Place the bowl on top of the simmering water. Make sure the bottom of the bowl doesn't touch the water. Continue whisking until the sugar has dissolved.
• Add the butter, a cube at a time, making sure that each piece melts before another is added. The mixture will begin to thicken like a custard.
• Finally, add the lemon juice and crushed raspberries and continue whisking until the curd thickens again. This process takes approximately 10 minutes or until a candy thermometer reads 165 degrees F.
• Strain the curd through a sieve. Cover the surface of the curd with a film of plastic wrap to stop a skin from forming. Store any extra curd in sealed sterilized jars. Keep in fridge.

RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
• Add raspberries, egg yolks, sugar, lemon juice, zest, and salt. Cook, stirring constantly, until curd coats the back of a spoon and is slightly thickened, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Strain curd through a fine mesh sieve, mashing the raspberries with the back of a spoon.

RASPBERRY CURD (FILLING)

Steps:

• Puree the raspberries and put them through a fine strainer to remove the seeds. Measure to make 1 1/2 cup puree, heat it in a non-corroding saucepan, and stir in the sugar and butter. Taste and add the lemon juice if needed. Whisk the eggs and egg yolks just enough to mix them. Then stir in some of the hot puree to warm them. Return to the pan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick- it should reach a temperature of 170°F Chill.

RASPBERRY CURD

Steps:

• 1. If using frozen raspberries, measure them while still frozen, then let them thaw to room temperature.
• 2. Put the berries in a pot over low heat and cook for 5 to 1o minutes, stirring until they release their juice. Press the simmering fruit against the side of the pot with the back of a wooden spoon to release even more juice.
• 3. Pour the raspberry juice and pulp into a sieve. When using a sieve rub the juice and as much of the pulp through as you can, using the back of a wooden spoon (WHAT YOU DON'T WANT TO RUN THROUGH IS THE SEEDS) Fine if not 100% of the pulp makes it through the sieve.
• 4. Transfer the juice and whatever pulp to the top part of a double-boiler or to a bowl large enough to be set over a pot that contains an inch or two of simmering water (You want the same amount of water in the double-boiler if using one
• 5. Add the other ingredients and stir constantly until the curd starts to thicken and can coat the back of a wooden spoon. This will take 20 to 30 minutes.
• 6. TIP;( The stirring constantly is important ), if you don't you will end up with small pieces of cooked egg in your raspberry curd. Also if you have never made fruit curds before it helps to know that the curd wont thicken to a soft pudding consistency you want while it's still warm
• 7. Spoon the curd into small clean jars. Unsealed fruit curd will only keep in the refrigerator for 1-2 weeks. For longer storage process 1/2 pint jars if raspberry curd in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes.
• 8. Raspberry curd can also be frozen for up to a year.

LEMON LAYER CAKE WITH RASPBERRY CURD AND WHIPPED CREAM

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 350?F. Spray two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides with nonstick vegetable oil spray. Line bottom of pans with parchment paper; spray again.
• Whisk eggs, yolks, milk, lemon juice, and lemon peel in medium bowl to blend. Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in large bowl to blend. Whisk oil and butter into flour mixture. Add egg mixture and whisk until smooth. Divide batter between prepared pans. Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool cakes on racks 10 minutes. Run knife around edge of pans to loosen cakes. Turn cakes out onto racks. Cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap with plastic. Let stand at room temperature.)
• For filling:
• Stir 1 basket raspberries, 3/4 cup sugar, eggs, lemon juice, butter, and salt in medium saucepan over medium heat until thickened and beginning to bubble at edges, about 5 minutes. Strain raspberry curd into medium bowl, pressing on solids in strainer. Refrigerate until cold, at least 2 hours and up to 1 day.
• Whip cream and 1/2 cup sugar until peaks form. Fold 1 1/2 cups whipped cream into raspberry curd. Reserve remaining whipped cream.
• Cut each cake horizontally into 2 layers. Place 1 layer, cut side down, on platter. Spread 1/3 of raspberry filling over. Repeat with 2 more cake layers and filling. Top with remaining cake layer.
• Spread all but 1 cup plain whipped cream over top and sides of cake. Place remaining whipped cream in pastry bag fitted with star tip. Pipe design around bottom edge of cake. Arrange remaining berries atop cake. Chill until cold, about 2 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome and keep refrigerated.)