Key Lime Pie

Dessert · United States classic.

Ingredients

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

Method

1. Heat the pan — 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).
2. Mix together — Mix with the melted butter and press into the base and up the sides of a 22cm loose-based tart tin.
3. Bake — Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove and cool.
4. Whisk — Put the egg yolks in a large bowl and whisk for a minute with electric beaters.
5. Add ingredients — Add the condensed milk and whisk for 3 minutes then add the zest and juice and whisk again for 3 minutes.
6. Continue cooking — Pour the filling into the cooled base then put back in the oven for 15 minutes.
7. Chill — Cool then chill for at least 3 hours or overnight if you like.
8. Serve — When you are ready to serve, carefully remove the pie from the tin and put on a serving plate.
9. Continue cooking — To decorate, softly whip together the cream and icing sugar.
10. Continue cooking — Dollop or pipe the cream onto the top of the pie and finish with extra lime zest.

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