I want to make a lemon filling for a WASC so I bought some lemon curd. Now that I have it, I'm not quite sure what to do with it! Would you use it by itself for the filling or do you combine it with something else before filling the cake?

Also, has anyone else tried this flavor combo? If so, what did you think about it?

That combo sounds really good. I'm sure the lemon curd by itself would be great. I'm a lemon fan though. I'm making a WASC cake today and I thought I would fill it with some vanilla pudding mixed with some strawberry jam. I've never done this before, but I thought I'd try it.

I usually use the lemon curd by itself, but you can also mix it with buttercream to get a good filling consistancy.
As far as trying it with WASC cake, I haven't tried that combo - but I would think it will taste good.

You can fold some lemon curd into whipped cream for a lighter more mousse like filling. When I do that I usually smear a tablespoon or so of pure lemon curd on to the cake before filling it, just to bump the flavour.

At the risk of sounding very stupid, what is a WASC cake? I love lemon curd anyway you mix it, but I feel left out of this conversation.

prettycakes --
Thank you for asking what I was thinking!!

Thank you for your suggestions! I may have to experiment with several of them this weekend. I will be in lemon heaven!

I use Robertson's lemon curd, excellent brand. I heat a small amount in the microwave to loosen it, brush it on my leveled cake layers which has been crushed with a lemon flavored simple syrup, then mix the lemon curd from the jar into buttercream or better yet into a Bavarian cream fillng made with Pastry Pride.
http://cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2396-Bavarian-Cream-Filling.html

Shirley,

That's a wonderful idea to brush it with the lemon curd for a little extra lemon flavoring. I think BakingGirl mentioned something like that too. It sounds really yummy, but lemon ANYTHING sounds good to me!

What flavor of cake do you usually make to go with the lemon filling?

Thanks, that cake sounds to die for. My mouth is watering.

I made a WASC cake for my mother in law last month and I just used the lemon curd straight as a filling and it was DIVINE!! But a few weeks before that I had a large shower cake to make and needed to stretch the lemon filling a bit so I mix it with cream cheese, vanilla and powdered sugar, it was also pretty yummy.