Fruit Curd Master Recipe

Preparation info
  • Yield: About

    3 cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      15 min

Appears in
Baker Bettie's Better Baking Book

By Kristin Hoffman

Published 2022

  • About

Fruit curd is one of my favorite pastry components! Lemon curd is the most common type, but you can utilize any tart fruit juice to make a fruit curd. Lemon, lime, orange, cranberry, and grapefruit juice all work well. Make sure that, if you use bottled juice (for instance, cranberry juice), it’s the kind that is unsweetened and 100 percent juice. I love a very tart curd, so I typically will use at least some lemon juice in any curd I make.

Fruit curds are used commonly as the filli