Key Lime Pie

Category: 

Dessert

Area: 

American

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Ingredients

  • Digestive Biscuits  -  300g
  • Butter  -  150g
  • Condensed Milk  -  400g
  • Egg Yolks  -  3
  • Lime  -  4
  • Double Cream  -  300ml
  • Icing Sugar  -  1 tbls
  • Lime  -  to serve

Instructions

Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Whizz the biscuits to crumbs in a food processor (or put in a strong plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin). Mix with the melted butter and press into the base and up the sides of a 22cm loose-based tart tin. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove and cool.
Put the egg yolks in a large bowl and whisk for a minute with electric beaters. Add the condensed milk and whisk for 3 minutes then add the zest and juice and whisk again for 3 minutes. Pour the filling into the cooled base then put back in the oven for 15 minutes. Cool then chill for at least 3 hours or overnight if you like.
When you are ready to serve, carefully remove the pie from the tin and put on a serving plate. To decorate, softly whip together the cream and icing sugar. Dollop or pipe the cream onto the top of the pie and finish with extra lime zest.