Try this zesty easy microwave lemon meringue fudge recipe.

Many of my favourite desserts are lemon flavoured – cheesecake, lemon drizzle cake, and of course lemon meringue pie. So one of the fudge flavours I wanted to try was lemon as well. I didn’t want it to taste like washing up liquid, so decided to add the meringue for a bit of added sweetness and texture. Plus this lemon fudge looks prettier with, than without, the meringue.

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It turned out really well – not too sweet, but packing a lemon punch. If you don’t like as strong a flavour, you can reduce the amount of lemon. You could use lemon extract, or squeeze lemons, but I decided to try lemon curd. A really good quality one. And it worked well. You could make your own curd, but that’s just too much effort.

As with all these easy fudge recipes, you just need chocolate (in this case white as it shows the meringue better, and you can colour it lemon if you want) and sweetened condensed milk. Then the lemon flavouring and meringues. I used shop bought meringues as I always have some in the larder for quickie pavlova puddings if I’ve nothing else in. If you make your own meringues make sure they won’t just crumble to nothing. You want them in small pieces not crumbs. 4-6 meringues should be enough, but you can add more if you want.

lemon fudge ingredients — *Melt chocolate chips with condensed milk and lemon curd*

lemon fudge mix — *Mix ingredients together*

I didn’t use food colouring for mine because I felt the lemon curd gave it a slight tiny anyway. But as you don’t want to make your fudge mix too wet, I recommend using concentrate colours like the Wilton food colouring* I like. You will only need a couple of drops to swirl in to make a pale yellow – any more than that and you could end up with psychedelic yellow instead!

I think lemon desserts and treats are so refreshing and feel light, so this lemon meringue fudge is great for summer. Just store it in the fridge.

lemon meringue fudge chopped up — *Leave to set in the fridge, then remove and cut into squares*

This recipe makes a lot of fudge – you’ll need a 20×20 cm tin or 8 inches. A brownie tin is perfect. Although you can half the ingredients like I do, then a plastic takeaway container is a good size.