Monday, May 16, 2011
Famous Key Lime Pie
Ingredients
6 oz graham crackers
2 tablespoon sugar
6 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)
7 egg yolks
2 cans of sweetened condensed milk (28 oz)
20 key limes (1 cup juice)
zest of 2 limes
To make crust...
Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl finely crumble all the graham crackers to a fine consistency. Add the sugar then gradually add the melted butter one tablespoon at a time until the cookie crumbs begin to stick together better when molded. Poor the crumb mixture into your pie pan. Mold the crumbs evenly up the sides and the bottom of the pan. Bake pie crust in oven for about 10 minutes until crust is golden and set.
To make filling...
In a large bowl whisk together egg yolks and lime zest for about a minute until slightly thickened. Then poor in the condensed milk, whisking continuously at the same time. Once all the condensed milk has been incorporated slowly add the lime juice while continuously whisking. Poor filling into cooled pie crust. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes or until set. Cool pie on a baking rack then chill in the fridge to firm about 2-3 hours. Serve key lime pie with vanilla ice cream and enjoy!
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