Sunday, August 18, 2013

Key Lime Pie is so Divine!!

Key Lime pie says summer to me.  It has that bit of tart I just love.  I made this pie several times in the past few months and I made it for my friend's 30th birthday party at our office.  I am a bit of a snob when I comes to certain things homemade.  The crust is so important.  Seriously, I hate store bought crust.  If I'm in a hurry and I need to get something quick, it's one of those last resort decisions to use one.  The recipe is so crazy simple but I did have a friend of mine tell me I need to add more key lime because it's just not tart enough.  Now I like tart but apparently she wants to have lemon/lime face.  Here is the recipe:

Key Lime Pie
filling:
1 can (14oz) condensed milk
4 egg yolks (separate the whites out)
3-4 oz of Key Lime juice

crust:
3 oz of toast almond slivers - buy them and use a tiny slice of butter and toast.  Must watch carefully or will burn and taste horrible.  Believe me, it's happened.
4 tbsp butter melted
1-1 1/2 cups of graham cracker
3 tsp white sugar
sprinkle of cinnamon.

Heat oven to 350 degrees and mixed all the crust ingredients and press into pie plate and bake for about 8 minutes.  Take out of oven and let completely cool
Use a mixer and pour in condensed milk, key lime juice and egg yolks.  Mix well and pour into crust.  Bake for about 20 minutes.
Cool and then spoon cool whip topping on pie and chill for at least 4 hours.

This is what was left at party.  And then it was gone after the picture was taken.

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