Key Lime Pie
- prep time:
- 15 minutes
- cook time:
- 25 minutes
- total time:
- 8 hours 35 minutes
- other time:
- 8 hours chilling of pie
Emma Williams
ingredients
Crust.- 1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs from 9 (2 1/4-inch by 4 3/4-inch) crackers
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 4 large egg yolks
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons fresh or bottled Key lime juice
- 3/4 cup chilled heavy cream
directions
- 1
Make crust:
- 2
Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 3
Stir together graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter in a bowl with a fork until combined well, then press mixture evenly onto bottom and up side of a 9-inch (4-cup) glass pie plate.
- 4
Bake crust in middle of oven 10 minutes and cool in pie plate on a rack. Leave oven on.
- 5
Make filling and bake pie:
- 6
Whisk together condensed milk and yolks in a bowl until combined well. Add juice and whisk until combined well (mixture will thicken slightly).
- 7
Pour filling into crust and bake in middle of oven 15 minutes. Cool pie completely on rack (filling will set as it cools), then chill, covered, at least 8 hours.
- 8
Make topping:
- 9
Just before serving, beat cream in a bowl with an electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks. Serve pie topped with cream.
notes
Pie (without topping) can be chilled up to 1 day.
Source: Emma
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