What is Orange Curd?

Lemon curd is by far the most popular type of fruit curd. However, curd can be made with so many types of fruit – I love making banana curd, carrot curd, and even mojito curd.

This mojito curd is my fourth foray into curds this year. Before this curd, I whipped up carrot curd, roasted banana curd, and orange curd.

Each time that I make a curd, I discover a new use for it. I’ve done the obvious (eating by the spoonful and spreading on toast), I’ve used it as filling for molten lava cakes, and I’ve used it to sweeten parfaits.

Roasted banana curd may have replaced cookie butter as my new favorite spread. Anyone who has ever hoarded a jar of cookie butter and taken secret spoonfuls throughout the day knows that besting cookie butter isn’t easy.

One of our son’s friends thought my carrot curd tasted like spiced pumpkin pie. He wasn’t that far off. The carrot curd taste is distinctly carrot with a hint of ginger, but it is thick, sweet, and buttery.

I could totally see how anyone could think they were eating delicious pumpkin pie or even candied yams if they didn’t know better.