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| Candied lemons on baking paper |
Lemons or oranges done this way are really really addictive. They make a fantastic garnish on cakes/cupcakes and would even be cute as a garnish to lemon tea at a tea party. A celebration ham topped with sliced oranges and lemons coated in a sweet whisky marmalade syrup/ golden syrup/brown sugar also works well.
You could even pack them into a preserving jar and keep them for when you need a sweet and sour sugar rush, I imagine they would last quite a while...
All you need to do is slice up the lemons, place on baking paper and add a teaspoon of sugar to each slice. Bake them in a moderate oven for around 20 minutes. Do keep checking them as they can go from soft to crispy pretty quickly.
I used my ones on a lemon and sour cream cake (below) with sour cream icing - delicious.
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| Lemon and sour cream cake with candied lemons and spring flowers |
You should enter this in Sweet New Zealand :-)
ReplyDeleteInfo here http://alessandrazecchini.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/sweet-new-zealand-for-september-calling.html
Ciao
Alessandra
beautiful! Must make some of these.
ReplyDeleteI do love lemon this way. I have just been given a big bag of beaufuil bright lemons from a friends tree which I am going whip up a few things out of
ReplyDeleteThanks Alessandra, I will enter the post for the cake rather than the lemons, I just need to post it! Mari and Alison they are addictive if you like a bit of sour with your sweet, sticky too!!! X
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