Key Lime Pie
For the Graham Cracker Crust:
Ingredients:
1/3 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cup finely crushed graham crackers
Instructions:
1. Coat a 9 inch pie plate with cooking spray (I use olive oil)
2. Melt butter
3. Add sugar to butter - stir
4. Stir in the finely crushed graham crackers
5. Pour into pie dish and spread across bottom and sides
6. Heat oven to 375 degrees
7. Bake crust for 5 minutes or until edges are light brown
8. Cool completely
For the Key Lime filling:
Ingredients:
14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon finely shredded Key lime peel
1/2 cup Key lime juice or lime juice
2 cups whipping cream - 1 cup for the filling, 1 cup for the topping
Instructions:
1. In a bowl, combine together the condensed milk, the teaspoon of Key lime peel, and the 1/2 cup lime juice.
2. In a separate bowl, beat 1 cup of the whipping cream with an electric mixer at medium to high speed until soft peaks form.
3. Fold the whipped cream into the lime mixture.
4. Pour/spoon filling into the prepared Graham Cracker crust.
5. Cover and freeze for at least 2-4 hours. Can be left overnight in freezer.
6. When ready to serve, beat the remaining 1 cup of whipped cream until soft peaks form.
7. Spread this over the Key lime filling.
8. Enjoy
Mark's Story:
Key Lime Pie is supposed to be one of the easiest pie recipes to make out there. I tried to make this one year for Christmas and I didn't have enough lime juice and no one could taste the lime. So that was a fail. I decided to make this again for our Pi(e) day celebration (3.14). I made it the night before and I bought actually Key Lime juice or I thought I had. I actually bought Key West lemon juice. Fortunately, I had enough fresh limes to make this. I take it into work for our Pi(e) day celebration and everyone loved it.
Then I got home and made another batch. I actually stopped at the store first and bought another pie plate first along with Key West lime juice. We had two pie plates but one broke at some point so I got another one. This pie was for my family. We tried it with and without the extra whipped cream topping. Trish liked both. Miriam didn't like it at all. I liked it with the extra topping. Took some of the tartness away. Miriam didn't like the tartness at all.
Remember Jesus loves you. John 3:16-17.
