Key Lime Pie

How to Cook Recipes Key Lime Pie using 5 ingredients and 5 steps

Key Lime Pie - We are big key lime pie fans and used authentic key lime juice. The pie was extremely dense like a very dense cheesecake. All of the KLP we have had in Florida (including very recently) has been smooth creamy and sometimes even very light as if whipped cream had been added. Cool and creamy Key lime pie is a tangy, sweet treat. Sample best-of-the-best variations, all from Food Network stars.

Pour the filling into a pre-baked graham cracker crust, bake briefly until the pie is set, and let it chill.

Top the pie with whipped cream and serve.

You can cook Key Lime Pie using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Key Lime Pie

1. Prepare egg yolks.
2. Prepare Key Lime Juice, no substitute.
3. Prepare cans Eagle brand sweetened evaporated milk, do not substitute.
4. It's lime zest.
5. It's Store-bought graham cracker crust put in a pie tin.

Key Lime Pie step by step

1. Set oven to 360f.
2. Beat egg yolks and then stir into the milk..
3. Add the lime zest and stir in the lime juice..
4. Pour into the pie tin with crust and bake at 360 f for 25 minutes..
5. Cool to room temperature and refrigerate. Serve with whipped cream..

Key Lime Pie - Key limes are a bit more tart than their traditional counterparts, but the results of this substitution will still be delicious. If Key limes aren't available in your grocery store, look for bottled Key lime juice near the other bottled lime juices. Cool the baked crust, and add the Key lime filling. This is the gold standard of key lime pie recipes. I live in Cuba where key limes are abundant, but Cuba also juices those limes and packages them in small boxes that contain about one cup each. I have tried both ways, with fresh key limes and that packaged lime juice and there is absolutely no difference. But that is Cuban lime juice. Thank you and good luck