OK, I am a little crazy about lemon deserts. Alix's lemon bars and the lemon cake in this thread as two of my all-time favorites.
I made a lemon cake Friday afternoon as I didn't want to face a dessert-free weekend. I was in bed this morning gradually coming to life and pleased with myself that I had awakened to greet yet another day. Rather than sugar plums, thoughts of food drifted through my head.
The drifting came to a stop at the lemon cake. How could I jazz it up? Make it more intense? I recalled all the discussion of glazes, but one of the beauties of this recipe is its simplicity. I didn't want to add another process to the recipe.
Then it hit me. Glazes?! We don't need no stinkin' glazes! The key to simplicity is LEMON CURD!
So tonight I cut myself a piece of lemon cake and microwaved some lemon curd to thin it out and poured all over the piece of cake.
Holy Guacamole, Batman! This is is a lemon explosion! The lemonheads among you really should give this a try.