Lemon Posset in 15 minutes with 3 ingredients

Have you ever heard of lemon posset? Apparently this is a dessert from the UK and it contains three ingredients: lemons, heavy cream, and sugar. It is unbelievably easy to make and comes together in less than 15 minutes. Surprisingly, you don’t need any additional binder, no gelatine, no agar agar, the lemons themselves somehow work their magic for this to get to the creamy and mousse-like texture. I didn’t believe it myself, I mean, seriously? How can this be? So I was first a little hesitant when I made it. But boy was I mistaken! Yeah, it definitely is runnier than whipped cream, but you can definitely scoop this out of the lemon as you see in the featured picture. So do you have guests coming? Do you need to impress somebody? Are you cooking skills rather basic? Then this dessert is for you, it contains three ingredients and will leave a happy and impressed crowd. My hubby probably doesn’t really count, but he ate this as if there was no tomorrow. So let’s get to it!

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Lemon Posset in 15 minutes with 3 ingredients

Serves: 4-5 lemon halfs

Prep Time: 10min – Cooking Time: 5min – Total Time: 15min

Lemon Posset in 15 minutes with 3 ingredients

Ingredients

• Zest and juice from two lemons, if you want to serve the dessert inside lemons, you will need two more
• 250 grams of heavy cream
• 50 grams of regular sugar

Instructions

1

Zest and juice two lemons. If you want to serve the dessert in lemons, half two more and scoop out the interior. You can use the leftovers to make lemonade.

2

Gently heat the heavy cream with the sugar, once bubbly, stir in the lemon juice, reduce heat and stir for a few minutes. It will thicken a little. Take off heat, add the zest (adding the zest too early will leave a bitter flavor, so only do this last), then pour into lemons or glasses and chill for at least three hours or overnight in the fridge. Serve chilled.

P.S.: Check this blog post for 14 recipes with lemons and limes!