Baking recipe for 8 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has hob nobs, butter, condensed milk, egg yolk, lime, double cream, icing sugar and lime.
Key lime pie
Course: Baking
Servings
8
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 150g butter, melted
- Lime: finely grated zest and juice of 4 limes
- Egg Yolk: 3 medium egg yolks
- Double Cream: 300ml double cream
- Icing Sugar: 1 tbsp icing sugar
- Condensed Milk: 1 x 397g can condensed milk (we used Nestle)
- Hob Nobs: 300g Hob Nobs
Directions
- Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3.
- Whizz 300g Hob Nobs to crumbs in afood processor(or put in a strong plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin).
- Mix with 150g 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 3 medium egg yolks in a large bowl and whisk for a minute with electric beaters.
- Add a can of condensed milk and whisk for 3 minutes, then add the finely grated zest and juice of 4 limes 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 300ml double cream and 1 tbsp icing sugar.
- Dollop or pipe the cream onto the top of the pie and finish with extra lime zest.