Vanilla lime cream – soft and simple

The recipe for this vanilla lime cream is inspired by a visit to our favorite cafe (which also inspired us to create this lavender lemonade recipe). Visiting a cafe can really spark some new great ideas! 🙂

We ordered a cake with a lime cream as an intermediate layer there, which was extremely delicious. I immediately thought about which ingredients were used to make that. Luckily, there were a few ingredients on the menu: Mascarpone and cream. I remembered one dessert I made a long time ago that originally had mascarpone in it, but since I didn’t have mascarpone at that moment, I used yogurt instead. The result back then was very tasty, so why wouldn’t I try to substitute it here aswell?

You can probably already guess where this is going. This lime cream absolutely had to be reinterpreted at home, of course. Instead of mascarpone I used greek yogurt together with whipped cream. And since I thought that lime on its own would be a bit unspectacular, I added some vanilla flavors to it. We also took some vanilla wafer rolls and used the vanilla lime cream as a sweet dip. We can only recommend you to try this!

You can also prepare the vanilla-lime cream as a layered dessert in a glass. We could imagine that a layer with fresh strawberries would fit well, maybe even with some pieces of white chocolate in the cream. If you like, you can also add a layer of cookies. This recipe invites you to experiment and let your ideas run wild. You could also use this cream as a cake cream, just like in the cafe.

Just give it a try and enjoy the refreshing taste of limes and the delicious flavors of vanilla. Get to the spoons and bon appetite!

Vanilla lime cream

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A fresh vanilla lime cream, perfect as a dessert for warm days.

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Total Time 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Worldwide

Servings 4 servings

Calories 288 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 300 g Greek yogurt
• 50 g Powdered sugar
• 1 Pack of vanilla sugar
• 15 ml Lime juice freshly squeezed
• 1 Vanilla bean or 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
• 200 g Whipped cream
• cookies or limes for decoration optional

Instructions

 

• Mix the yogurt and powdered sugar in a bowl until smooth.
• Grate some lime zest and squeeze the juice of half a lime (1-2 tablespoons is about 15ml) and add to the yogurt mixture.
• Slit the vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape out the pulp. Add the vanilla pulp and vanilla sugar to the yogurt mixture.
• Mix everything well.
• In a bowl, whip the cream until stiff. Then gently fold the cream into the yogurt mixture.
• Pour the cream into dessert glasses and decorate if desired. Store in the refrigerator until ready to eat.

Notes

• If you do not have a vanilla bean at home, you can also use half a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
• Please only use the zest of organic limes.
• The dessert can also be layered in the glass. For example, you could try amaretti cookies or oatmeal cookie pieces.

Keyword Cream, Dessert, Fresh, Lime, Yogurt