If the sun’s out and the temperature’s hot, there’s a great chance we’re making a tasty lemon confection. Cake, pudding, “lemonies”…if it’s got lemon in it, we’re going to eat it. And, of course, the same goes for this Arizona sunshine lemon pie. Not only does it taste amazing, as a delicious, creamy lemon custard, but it’s also cute to boot with a great latticed crust on top. Hello, who wouldn’t look at this and love it immediately? No one. No one can resist this stuff! So, sometimes custards can be a little intimidating, since they involve tempering eggs – and no one wants to have to do that more than once, if it ends up curdled the first time – but we’re here to assure you that the process is totally doable. It requires patience and making sure you don’t cook the eggs too high or too fast, but other than that, just about anyone can confidently make a custard – you’ll see!

Since we want to focus our energies on the custard, we think it’s fine to skip making a from-scratch crust and instead use store-bought. You’ll get all the amazing, homemade flavor from the custard, and the crust acts as a supplement to that, rounding out the flavor, without taking attention away from it. To make your lattice: roll out your first pie dough sheet and set that in your pie pan, then fill ‘er up and lattice the top portion! You’ll lay all the pie crust strips down that are going in one direction (all vertical to start), then you’ll simply pull up alternate strips and lay down one horizontal piece of pie dough.

Return the alternating vertical strips to their original position, then repeat with the vertical strips that were originally lying flat. Easy-breezy! This is a perfectly delicious pie, that hits the spot all summer long…you really can’t go wrong!