Strawberry Fool with Lemon Curd
This strawberry fool is made with strawberry coulis, homemade lemon curd, whipped cream, and a fresh strawberry garnish. What's not to love?
Strawberry Coulis
- About 1 pound fresh strawberries
- About 1/4 cup sugar
Lemon Curd
- 1/2 cup lemon
- 1 cup sugar
- 6 egg yolks
- Pinch salt
- 1 stick (113g) unsalted butter
Fresh Strawberry Garnish
- 1 lb strawberries cut to ¼ inch dice
- 2 tbsp brown sugar more if fruit is not sweet
- 4 mint leaves chiffonade
- ½ tsp lime zest
Strawberry Fool & Assembly
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 2 tbsp confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups chilled Strawberry Coulis
- 1 cup lemon curd
Lemon Curd
Whisk together the lemon juice, sugar, yolks, and salt. Add the butter and set over a double boiler.
Use a rubber spatula to stir the lemon curd until it starts to thicken. It should coat the spatula and cling to it before you remove it from the heat. Strain into a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and chill over an ice bath or in the freezer for 20 minutes and then refrigerate until thoroughly chilled. Can be made a few days ahead and kept refrigerated.
Assemble the Fool
Whip heavy cream with confectioners’ sugar to medium peaks. It is crucial that the cream is stiff enough to hold up to the coulis, but isn’t whipped too much and grainy. Fold half the cream into half the chilled strawberry coulis. Fold the lemon curd into remaining cream.
Spoon half the strawberry-cream layer into eight 8-ounce glasses, spoon 2 tablespoons coulis over the cream in each glass, then spoon half the lemon curd over the coulis. Repeat this with remaining strawberry-cream, coulis and lemon curd-cream. You’ll end up with eight layers. Top with fresh strawberry garnish.