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Today’s recipe is another Recipe Redo. I have found that I shared some of my all time favorite recipes in the beginning days of the blog and the photos aren’t as great as I would like so I am gradually revisiting some of those recipes and redoing the post so you have better photos. It’s fun to dig through the archives too and reacquaint you with them.
Today’s recipe for Lemon Angel Pie has been a favorite of mine for over 25 years – it has definitely stood the test of time. It combines two of my favorite things – lemons and a meringue crust!
I first had Lemon Angel Pie when my oldest boy who is now almost 29 was only 4 years old! I was at a Preschool Board Meeting and the woman hosting the meeting served this as dessert. As soon as I took my first bite I knew I had to have the recipe.
Our family has been enjoying this as our favorite Easter dessert ever since. There is just something about Easter that says lemon to me! It just wouldn’t be Easter without our favorite lemon dessert – Lemon Angel Pie.
The great thing about this recipe is you can make it the day ahead – in fact you need to make it the day ahead thus making it a perfect dessert for Easter dinner! Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
You start by making the meringue crust. You beat together egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar. You are suppose to beat it until it becomes stiff but not dry. I have NEVER in the 20 years I have been making this had the egg whites get stiff. It always ends up somewhat thick and shiny but definitely not stiff but that’s o.k – just pour it into the buttered pie pan and I promise it will be o.k.
It will puff up beautifully.
The other thing – when you remove it from the oven – don’t worry when the beautiful, puffed-up, golden brown crust begins to crack and fall. It is suppose to do that.
While the meringue crust is baking you can make the filling
Combine the egg yolks, sugar, lemon juice, lemon rind and salt into a microwave safe container and mix.
Cook until thickened in microwave for 4 minutes (stir every 30 seconds) Cool.
Allow the lemon filling to cool and whip 2 cups of whipping cream.
Combine half of the whipped cream with the cooled lemon mixture and fold to combine.
Pour into the meringue crust. And then cover with the remaining whipped cream. The pie is very sweet so you do not need to sweeten the whipped cream.
The pie is so light and wonderful it almost just melts in your mouth. It is the perfect ending to any meal, especially Easter dinner when you just need something light and lovely.
Other Lemon Desserts you may enjoy:
Marilyn’s Lemon Curd Ice Cream Pie
Enjoy!
Leigh Anne
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Ingredients
- 4 eggs, separated
- 1 C sugar
- 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1/2 C sugar
- 3 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp. grated lemon rind
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 2 cups whipping cream.
Instructions
- Beat egg whites until foamy.
- Add in sugar gradually and cream of tartar.
- Beat until stiff but not dry (it's o.k if this doesn't happen)
- Pour into a butter glass pie dish
- Bake meringue crust at 300 degrees for 45-60 minutes.
- Cool.
- Take 4 egg yolks and beat slightly.
- Stir in 1/2 cup sugar, 3 Tbsp. lemon juice and 1 Tbsp. grated lemon rind, 1/4 tsp. salt.
- Cook until thickened in microwave for 4 minutes (stir every 30 seconds) Cool.
- Whip 2 cups whipping cream and fold 1/2 of whip cream into lemon mixture.
- Pour into cooled meringue shell. Top with the remaining whip cream. Chill for 24 hours.
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Stopping by from Katherine’s Corner. I just LOVE all things lemon, so when I saw this I had to see what it was about. It looks soo yummy! I have some fresh lemons that Grandma sent me from her lemon tree in AZ that are calling for something like this
Thanks so much for sharing.
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Thanks for stopping by Rebekah. I hope you’ll try it and enjoy it as much as our family does – definitely one of our all time favorites.
Lemon pie is one of my favorites…love the no-bake one, too.
I’ve never made a crust like this…must give it a try.
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Hope you will give it a try – it is soooo good!!
Looks amazing!
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Heavenly delicious looking. Pinned and evernoted it. This is a keeper.
We may have met by chance…but we become friends by choice.
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I love lemon desserts
Thanks for sharing your recipes with my WW blog party!
I just started a brand new party called “Pin it Again”…come on by and bring your pie! I would enjoy having another visitor and your pie looks delicious!!
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Blessings!
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My crust turned out crunchy and I only baked it for 40 mins. Did I do something wrong?
It will be crispy/ crunchy at first but once you fill it and then refrigerate over night it will soften up. There will still be a crispness to the edges though
I am a card carrying lemon head and this looks awesome Leigh Anne! Thanks for sharing it at the party this week! I am featuring it on my Facebook page too
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We just love lemon and this is a very special pie, can’t wait to try it. Thank you so much for sharing this awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday and have a great weekend!
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Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing at Give Me the Goods Monday party! We hope to have you join us again next week!
If I make just the meringue crust a day ahead of time, and then complete the pie the next day, will the crust be just as good as if it were fresh? Or should I make the whole pie one day in advance?
Christina, Actually, it is recommended that you make the whole pie the day ahead of time. it gives the meringue crust time to soften and turn into pure heaven!
Hello, thanks so much for your speedy reply, I feel so silly for not noticing those instructions in your recipe, I’m so sorry! Have a wonderful Easter, I can’t wait to make this pie for tomorrow!
Enjoy the pie!
My crust is in the oven and it is growing out of my pie plate!! Like it is triple the size of the pie plate. What do I do?????
My crust is in the oven and it is outgrowing the pie plate. LIke it is three times as big as the pie plate!!! What do I do?????
It will get bigger and expand but when you take it out it will begin to fall and crack which is what it is suppose to do.
I just made the meringue crust, and it beat up beautifully stiff. I added 1/2 tsp of the cream of tartar after reading on the McCormick label to “add 1/4 tsp per 2 egg whites for stability in meringues and souffles.” That may have been the trick. It was stiff enough that when I put it in the pie dish I was able to use my silicone spatula to shape it so it was concave in the center, making a slight well for the filling when ready, and it maintained that shape after cooled. Thank you for sharing this recipe! It is a very yummy, light lemon pie that will be perfect for Easter tomorrow!
Thanks so much for the tip – will totally try that next time! Happy Easter and enjoy!
This looks so good! I am excited to try it too because it is also gluten free! Yay! I have never heard of making a crust like this. Thanks for linking with me!
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I couldn’t wait to try this recipe and did everything like recipe said. I cooked for 45 minutes and saw it rise above the pie dish. After taking it out of oven, it partly went down but one side remained high and it never did touch the pie dish. What did I do wrong???
I really don’t think you did anything wrong. Many times mine does not rise evenly either. It should still taste good!!
This looks delicious! I totally hear you about going back and taking pics of your first posts! I think I am going to do this too! Great idea.
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Just made this for our Easter dessert! It was wonderful1
Thanks!
So glad!! Happy Easter.
Stopping by from See Ya in the Gumbo~ I love anything Lemon so I will love this pie:) Thanks for sharing:) Lynn @ Turnips 2 Tangerines
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Leanne, this looks incredible! I don’t like normal pie crust, and my husband’s a lemon dessert-a-holic, so this could be the perfect treat for us. Thanks so much for sharing. Visiting today from Marvelous Mondays.
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Thanks Jelli – it is pretty much the perfect dessert in my book.
I made this recipe for the second Easter in a row after finding it on your website last year. It was even better than I remembered it. So light and delicious. We had company over for Easter dinner and although I made a carrot cake as well, the Lemon Angel Pie was the clear favorite. I think I’ll skip the carrot cake next year and just make 2 of these. I am tempted to try a version of it using mango curd or lime instead of the lemon just for fun.
I am so glad you enjoy it as much as we do. It’s the only Easter dessert we need at our house!!!
Gorgeous looking dessert. I love just about any dessert that has lemons in it, so this definitely goes on my must try list.
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I made this over the weekend. Delicious! I had quite a bit of meringue left over after filling pie plate 1/2 full, as pictured. So a person could reduce the egg whites by 1 and the proportionate amount of sugar, as well, and have plenty of meringue for the crust. Also, I ended up having to use Cool Whip (or off brand) as a sub for the whipping cream. In my attempt at whipping the cream, I ended up accidentally making butter. I believe this was because my whipping cream wasn’t completely chilled??, not sure, but it was a nice addition to Easter dinner having the homemade butter.
Thank you for linking with See Ya in the Gumbo this week. Your pie is a beauty. Very Spring like–I’m glad you re-posted it.
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Oh my word…that looks amazing!!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing!
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This looks soooo good! Thank you for sharing. You will be one of the features from the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Pop on in and grab a feature button!! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
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These look absolutely delicious and this week, I have this recipe feature on my blog in Tasty Recipes Featured #Recipes
Hope you can stop by and take a look. Post any other recipe in our linky as well. Have a great week, Karren
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I’m so excited to see your link pop up each week at Pinworthy Projects. This looks delicious! Have a great day!
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YUM! That looks so so good. I wish I had a piece right now!
I’m definitely pinning this!
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This looks absolutely amazing and I can’t wait to try it! Thanks so much and your pictures are just lovely!
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This looks so amazing! Perfect for spring.
Thank you for sharing at Marvelous Mondays this week!
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This looks absolutely scrumptious! Thanks so much for sharing it at the FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA last week! Hope you’ll come join us again this week and share more of your goodies!! =D
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This sounds amazing! Love the meringue crust — sounds much easier than the intimidating pavlova meringue! Definitely on my to do list since husband’s favorite pie is lemon meringue! Love the microwaved filling too. You are featured this week on Busy Monday at A Pinch of Joy! I hope you will stop by and grab a Featured Button from the Button Box at the top of the sidebar. Pinned.
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I just can’t make those egg yolks come out good…. but…. yours looks absolutely yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing the recipe at the FineCraftGuild.com recipe linky party.
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I just made the pie and I was wondering about the filling. Crust came out great but the filling didn’t make that much for me. It barely spread across the crust. Seems like there should have been more. Do you think I did something wrong or is it supposed to be a really small layer. Thanks!
Sara, Did you combine the lemon filling with half of the whipped cream?? There should be plenty to fill the pie.
Uggg. I’m so lame! Your comment made me re-read. Even though I read the instructions a few times, I had already decided to use pre made whipped topping (even though you said it was sweet enough, I’ve never met a dessert that I thought was too sweet!) so I read the “1/2 whipped topping” as 1/2 cup. So I’m missing some, but I’m sure it will still be good. (we’re having it tomorrow and my kids and I are so excited!) It’s been hard not to take a test bite but the lickings of everything were so good! You’re so fantastic for getting back to me so quick!
It was a hit even with my mess-up! I think it just made it much more lemony which some people actually liked! I LOVED the crust. genius!! Can’t wait to make it again.
So glad everyone loved it!!!
Can not wait to make this dessert….simple scrumptious looking!!
this sounds wonderful! however I have a milk allergy. any suggestions for what I can substitute the whipping cream with? cool whip would be sweet so I’m not sure it would work.
Thanks
There are non-dairy whipped toppings available. I would just use one of those.
I love lemon and lime pies! This looks delicious and I can’t wait to try it!
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