KEY LIME PIE

Finish any meal with this Perfect, light dessert.

INGREDIENTS

For the Crust

  • 11/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
  • 2 tbsp. white sugar
  • 5 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted

Filling

  • 1 (14oz) can unsweetened condensed milk
  • 4 large egg yolks
  • 6 tbsp. fresh or bottled key lime juice

Topping

  • ¾ cold whipping cream

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch pie plate.
  2. Stir together graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter in a bowl and mix until well combined.
  3. Press mixture into the bottom of the pie pan and up the sides and bake for 10 minutes until golden brown. Place the pie pan on a cooling rack (leave the oven on).
  4. Whisk together condensed milk and yolks in a bowl until well combined. Add juice and whisk. Pour mixture into the pie shell and bake for 15 minutes.
  5. Cool pie completely on rack (pie will set as it cools).
  6. Refrigerate pie covered for at least 8 hours. 
  7. Whip the cream until you have stiff peaks and spread over the pie and serve.
About the Author

Chef Darryl Fletcher’s (ChefD) inspiration to pursue a culinary career began while watching Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet) and trying some of their recipes at home.

He is a graduate of the Chef program at Humber College in Toronto, Canada.

ChefD’s career has grown from humble beginnings cooking in his hometown of Kitchener, Ontario, before travelling and learning techniques from all over North America, and then finally coming back home.

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