Clear Lemon Jelly Filling

Submitted by Cathleen Colbert

"From Recipe Goldmine. For use in a jelly roll cake."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 1 filling for cake

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 cup water
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon, rind of
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1⁄3 cup lemon juice
• 4 drops yellow food coloring (optional)

directions

1. In a saucepan, combine sugar, corn starch and salt.
2. Stir in water gradually.
3. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils.
4. Continue to cook at a boil for 1 minute.
5. Remove from heat and add lemon peel and butter.
6. Stir in lemon juice and food coloring.
7. Allow to cool before using.
8. *If the filling is too soft, refrigerate.

Reviews

[aaproctor]

It was perfect as written, less sugar would be mouth-puckering! I added a pinch of turmeric for coloring since I didn’t have food coloring.

 

[Cynna]

I made this to use as doughnut filling. I followed the recipe to the letter. Very delicious! Be sure not to walk away even for a second because it gets thick very quickly. I actually let it go a little too far, but once the butter, zest, and juice went in it was perfect. I will be making this a lot, as I'm a big-time lemon junkie. Thanks so much for sharing this simple and quick recipe!

 

[Mares C.]

Excellent lemon filling. Followed recipe and well written instructions, and had no trouble with the gel thickening. I used a small amount of Lemon Yellow gel food coloring, because the uncolored gel didn't look very appetizing. I used filling for 2 dozen cupcakes, (using #58213,Lemon pillow cake) Excellent results! Thanks for posting.

 

[phiyen_le]

Used for my jelly roll cake. Consistency was perfect! However, I did only use 1/2 cup of sugar and then found that it was way too sour so I made a second batch to mix with the first one and cut the amount of lemon juice in half. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[cbw8915]

I had a few problems with this recipe, but in the end it tasted good and worked for what I wanted(recipe # 58213). I wasn't sure about how long it was supposed to take to thicken, but after about 15 minutes, I got impatient and added a bit more cornstarch, then a bit more after about 5 minutes. I'm not sure if I was too impatient or didn't have my heat up high enough or what, but it was taking forever! Finally, I just took it off the burner and thought I'd have to scrap it, but when I came back a few hours later, it had thickened considerably...almost too thick, but I was able to make it work. Thanks for posting.