Key Lime Pie
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Key Lime Pie
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Key lime pie is a super easy dessert to make at home! Tasty and festive as a regular pie or mini size.
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Ingredients
For crust
- 1 1/4 cups Graham cracker crumbs from 1 wrapped section of crackers + one additional cracker
- 5 Tablespoons butter melted
For filling
- 14 ounce sweetened condensed milk
- 4 large egg yolk
- 1/2 fresh lime juice (from key limes or regular)
- 2 teaspoons fine lime zest (as little white as possible)
For topping (this is enough for 6 rosettes, double or triple for more topping)
- 1/2 cup mascarpone
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 2 Tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- optional lime zest for garnish
Instructions
Make crust
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Stir together graham cracker crumbs and butter until well combined. Press mixture evenly onto bottom and up side of a 9-inch pie plate or 6 3-4 inch canning jars.
- Bake crust for 10 minutes and cool in pie plate on a rack.
Make filling and bake pie
- Whisk together condensed milk, egg yolks, juice (add half at a time) and zest until well combined.
- Pour filling into cooled crust and bake for 15 minutes. Cool pie completely on rack (filling will set as it cools), then chill. Store covered.
Make topping
- When pie is cool, whip cream, then add sugar, vanilla and mascarpone. Beat until fluffy. Pipe six rosettes around outside of pie or in center of each individual mini-pie. Sprinkle mascarpone cream with additional lime zest if desired. Store covered and refrigerated until served.
Nutrition Information
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Calories
725kcal
(36%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 6Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 725 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 725kcal | 36% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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