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Key Lime Pie With A New Twist You'll Love

Key Lime Pie with a Tea Biscuit crust
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Chilling time: 4 hours
Total Time 5 hours 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8 servings
Calories 374 kcal

Equipment

  • stand mixer or electric mixer
  • zester or microplane
  • food processor

Ingredients
  

Pie Filling:

  • 4 tsp lime zest loosely packed -just enough to get into measuring spoon
  • 2/3 cup lime juice from 4 limes preferably Key Limes or any you can find
  • 4 large egg yolks
  • 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/8 tsp kosher salt

Crust:

  • 24 Nabisco Social Tea Biscuits 109 grams or 3 3/4 ounces ***see note
  • 3 tbsp granulated sugar
  • 5 tbsp unsalted butter, melted

Topping:

  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 tbsp confectioners sugar

Instructions
 

Pie Crust:

  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (163 degrees C).
  • In a food processor, add the social tea biscuits and process until it becomes fine crumbs. Add melted butter and pulse until well blended.
  • Pour the crumbs into 9 inch pie dish.
  • Press crumbs evenly into the bottom and up the sides of the pie dish. Try to make a neat border up the side edge.
  • Bake until lightly golden brown, about 15 minutes. Transfer to cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Keep the oven on.

For the filling:

  • In a standing mixer (you can also use a hand mixer), beat the egg yolks and lime zest at high speed until creamy and light green in color, about 3 minutes.
    mixer eggs lime zest
  • Beat in the sweetened condensed milk on medium speed for one minute. Add the lime juice at medium speed until combined. let it sit for 10 minutes until it starts to thicken up.
    Pouring sweetened condensed milk to egg and lime zest
  • Pour lime filling into pie crust. Bake until the filling is set, about 18 minutes. The filling will be a little jiggly but will set as it cools. Cool it to room temperature Refrigerate until cold about 3-4 hours.
    Pouring key lime pie filling into tea biscuit pie crust

Topping:

  • In a standing mixer using the whisk attachment (or hand mixer), whip the cream on high until soft peaks form. Stop the mixer, add the confectioners' sugar and then continue whipping into stiff peaks.
  • Serve over the cold pie. Garnish with lime slices.
    Key lime pie with limes in background

***Note:

  • If you can't get a hold of Nabisco Social Tea Biscuits, you can use animal crackers or digestive biscuits.

Nutrition

Serving: 8servingsCalories: 374kcalCarbohydrates: 29gProtein: 4gFat: 28gSaturated Fat: 14gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 158mgSodium: 174mgPotassium: 89mgFiber: 1gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 815IUVitamin C: 7mgCalcium: 46mgIron: 1mg
Keyword Key Lime Pie, Lime, Social Tea cookies, Tea Biscuits
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