Extraordinarily good key lime pie
Description: I used to buy key lime pies but then I started making them and playing with the recipe until I got the flavour completely right. I think this is an extraordinarily good key lime pie! I hope you enjoy it.
Ingredients
- 70g flaked almonds, toasted
- 225g digestive biscuits, crushed
- 50g caster sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 55g butter, melted
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 (400ml) tin sweetened condensed milk
- 120ml lime juice
- 180ml cold double cream
- 1/2 teaspoon grated lime zest
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 180 C / Gas 4.
- Pulse the almonds in a food processor until finely ground. Combine the ground almonds with the biscuit crumbs, sugar and salt. Pour in the melted butter and mix until evenly moistened. Press into a 23cm pie dish.
- Bake the base in the preheated oven until golden brown, 10 to 13 minutes.
- While the base is baking, beat the egg yolks in a bowl with the condensed milk, cream and lime zest. Whisk in the lime juice a little at a time to thicken the filling; pour on top of the biscuit base and return to the oven.
- Bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until the filling is set. Cool to room temperature on a wire rack before covering loosely with cling film and refrigerating overnight.