Irish Lemon Pudding Recipe
Enjoy a traditional Irish lemon pudding for dessert!
Here’s a St. Patrick’s day recipe that isn’t green or rainbow-colored. While the festive colors can be fun, I think it is cool to mix things up with traditional Irish foods too. Try this Irish Lemon Pudding recipe for dessert and the delicious Irish Brown Bread with dinner!
My husband was recently in AZ for work and he came home with a box of freshly picked, huge lemons and grapefruit! Now I want a lemon tree! We made fresh lemonade a few times and used some of the lemons for this recipe.
Irish lemon pudding is not overly sweet, so it is perfect sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with sweetened whipped cream. It has a unique texture because the batter separates as it bakes – the top layer is a cake and the bottom layer is like a custard. Yum!
This dessert is so simple, the recipe only calls for 6 ingredients – butter, sugar, eggs, flour, lemons, and milk. That’s it!
The original recipe calls for the juice and zest of 2 lemons (without measurements). I found that the average lemon yields about 2-3 tablespoons of juice and about 1 tablespoon of zest. I use about 1/3 cup lemon juice for this recipe. So hopefully that info helps you have an idea for about the right amounts, in case you have exceptionally huge lemons or itty bitty lemons. 😉
The lemon mixture is pretty soupy and thin, but thickens up a bit when you fold in the stiff egg whites.
Pour the batter into an 8- or 9-inch pie plate, cake pan, loaf pan, ramekins, or double the recipe and pour it into a 9-inch springform pan. The springform and ramekins make for a prettier presentation and yummy thick layers. (Some people like it with orange instead of lemon too. Sounds like a fun twist!)
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Irish Lemon Pudding Recipe
Equipment
- 9x9 baking pan
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs separated
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 lemons zested and juiced (1/4-1/3 cup juice, 2 tablespoons zest)
- 1 ¼ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F/175°C
- Cream the butter and sugar well. Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing after each addition. Then add the flour, then lemon zest, and juice. Whisk in the milk and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold gently into the lemon mixture until incorporated. Pour into an 8- or 9-inch pie plate or cake pan, or evenly among four 1-cup ramekins.
- Bake for about 40 minutes, until very lightly browned around the edge and mostly set. You can use a toothpick to see if top cake layer is done, but remember that the bottom should be like custard. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve warm with sweetened whipped cream.
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AWFUL!! It was like bating a cotton ball.Total waste of ingredients.
I’m sorry to hear it didn’t work for you, Nancy!
This recipe is simple and, i imagine, very old. I have made it a few times for St. Pats day, and it pairs well with Jamesons. 😁 At this time there are only 2 reviews for it here, and one gives it a bad wrap, which is really too bad, as the exact same recipe gets raves elsewhere. I use a small spingform pan (some recommend doubling the recipe and using a 9 inch) and add a graham or cookie crust because the pudding has a pretty profile. You will never believe that you can spend so little money and get such a tasty and good looking dessert for so little effort.
Thank you, Mary! I love the idea of adding a graham cracker crust to the Irish lemon pudding too. Yum!
I just made it and it came out quite lovely and delicious.
Thank you for your comment, Carol! So glad you like it!
Delicious and easy. Made it in individual ramekins and it came out perfectly. Really nice lemon flavor.
Yes! Thank you for your comment and review, Rebecca.