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A white plate with 4 lemon cream horns piled up
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Lemon Cream Horns

Lemon Cream Horns with puff pastry and lemon custard filling, a super easy dessert to make at home without the horn moulds. It's quick and the lemon kick makes this dessert perfect for Easter too. These cream horn can be made with any filling of your choice, either vanilla, orange or anything else that you fancy.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Cooling Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 35 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: International
Servings: 9 horns
Calories: 330kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 ready-rolled puff pastry
  • 2 cups milk
  • cups sugar
  • 80 g butter (⅓ cup)
  • 7 tablespoon flour
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • zest from one lemon
  • 1 teaspoon yellow food colouring
  • icing sugar for decorating

Instructions

  • To make the cream, pour half of the milk into a pan set over a medium heat.
  • Add the sugar and leave to simmer for 2-3 minutes for the sugar to dissolve.
  • Mix the other half of milk with the flour, whisking well to avoid lumps forming.
  • Pour the flour mixture over the sugar mixture together with the lemon zest and juice, and whisk well until you get a thick cream.
  • Remove from the heat, and allow it to cool for 5-10 minutes.
  • Cut the butter into cubes, and add it to the cream, mixing well to incorporate it.
  • Leave the cream to cool completely.
  • To make the horns, cut the puff pastry into strips of about 2cm wide, and 15-20cm long.
  • Starting from the bottom up, roll the pastry strips around the cones, making sure there are no gaps in between.
  • Repeat to make 9 horns.
  • Bake in the preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius (350 Fahrenheit) for 15-20 minutes until golden.
  • Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely, then remove the moulds carefully.
  • Put the cream into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle, and fill the horns.
  • Sprinkle with icing sugar.

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Nutrition

Calories: 330kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 26mg | Sodium: 147mg | Potassium: 112mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 315IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 76mg | Iron: 1mg