Run With The Fishes

I have a beautiful new cookbook and really wanted to try some of the recipes in it. I have tried a few and so far each one has been delicious. I thought about doing this one next week, when the Whip It Up theme is desserts, but couldn’t wait that long to make it. I guess that means we’ll have to have a new dessert again next week. Darn.

Please don’t make fun of my duct tape labels. They are not meant to be permanent but are there to help young minds learn how to read.

Lemon sandwiches filled with raspberries and cream
from Apples for Jam by Tessa Kiros
Ingredients:
For the bread

1/2 lb plus 2 tbls butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
Finely grated zest and the juice of 1 lemon
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla

For the filling

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tsp confectioners (powdered) sugar
1/2 cup Greek style plain yogurt
1 cup fresh raspberries, halved

Confectioners sugar for dusting

Directions
Preheat oven to 325f. Butter and flour 4″ loaf pan.

Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add in eggs 1 at a time.

Sift in the flour and baking powder.

Mix in the lemon zest

lemon juice

cream and vanilla.

Whisk well to get a smooth batter.

Spoon into loaf pan and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until toothpick poked into center comes out clean.

If top is browning too fast, cover with aluminum foil. After baking, remove from oven and cool completely.

For the filling, whip the cream and confectioner’s sugar

until it holds peaks. then fold in the yogurt.

To make the sandwiches, cut the lemon loaf in slices about 1/4 inch thick.

Spread some of the whipped cream on a slice

add some berries

top with another slice

and dust with powdered sugar.

This recipe was super easy to follow. Just like all of the others in this book. This one seems to be one of the more labor intensive of the recipes. It is completely worth it. I didn’t have access to Greek yogurt, but found that it is basically just super thick yogurt. To achieve this, I followed one of the online tips I found (I don’t remember where and didn’t save the link). I used a coffee filter and strained some regular plain yogurt overnight in the refrigerator. It worked perfectly.

Even though I bought the berries the day before, they had already started to mold. Gross. As a quick substitute we used some strawberry preserves. There is no doubt that I will be making this again. Next time, I will make it the day we buy the berries.