Key Lime Pie
Ingredients
Ingredients | Measure |
Digestive Biscuits | 300g |
Butter | 150g |
Condensed Milk | 400g |
Egg Yolks | 3 |
Lime | 4 |
Double Cream | 300ml |
Icing Sugar | 1 tbls |
Lime | to serve |
Instruction
- 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
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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
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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