Lemon Souffle

The husband and I were invited to dinner by some lovely friends. I decided to make Lemon Souffle for a dessert to bring along. Would you also like to make it?

- 1/4 cup salted butter

- 4 eggs, separated

- zest of 1 lemon

- 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

- 1 cup of sugar

- 1/4 cup flour

- 1/4 teaspoon salt

- 1 1/4 cups milk

1. Prepare 4 ramekins; set aside. Don't have ramekins, neither did I, use stoneware mugs.

2. In a large bowl, beat together butter, egg yolks, lemon juice and lemon zest.

2. In a small bowl combine sugar, flour and salt.

3. Add flour mixture alternately with the milk to the egg mixture.

4. In a large separate bowl, beat egg whites until firm peaks form.

5. Fold egg whites gently into the lemon mixture.

6. Pour batter into ramekins or mugs
7. Set the ramekins/mugs in a large baking dish. Pour hot water into the baking dish to about halfway up the sides of the ramekins/mugs. This will regulate the temperature so your mugs don't crack when baking!

8. Bake 25-30 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown.

9. Serve warm or chilled. Garnish with berries or a dusting of powdered sugar.

These were so good, but as I was clumsily bumping around in the kitchen, my elbow caught the handle of a mug.

-SPLAT-

all over the floor!

So then I was down to three souffles, which just wouldn't do.

Thankfully I had also been making Smitten Kitchen's Lime Cake again to use up the rest of the yogurt from the last time I made the cake. (Not wasting food is an awesome excuse to continuously make desserts!)

I was out of blackberries. So I just did a powdered sugar dusting. Then for some glam I added candied limes.
- 1 lime

- 1/2 cup sugar

- 1 tablespoon sugar

- 1/2 cup water

1. After slicing lime into thin rounds, blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes. Drain.
2. In a pot, add 1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup of sugar. Bring to a simmer and place limes into the mixture. Simmer 10 minutes or so. (I also added some lavender)

3. Spread on a cooling rack and leave for 1 hour or more.

4. Coat both sides of lime slices with remaining sugar.

5. Place on cake. Make pretty :)

In the mail yesterday I even got a lime card
with some Lime tea from a swap-bot friend! (and last night I drank the Mate Chocolatte.... oh my... it is divine!). The timing of this card made me smile!

And the Hubby and I enjoyed the lemon souffles that we didn't share with our friends after one went SPAT (maybe I unconsciously did it on purpose)! haha.