Key Lime Pie

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This page describes my favorite key lime pie recipe and the only one that Joanne Church ever asked me to repeat.

TH KLP - Two Harbors "Key Lime" Pie

(No keys, just pie: lemons can replace limes)

Preparation for KLP

Set out cream cheese, butter, sour cream to soften to room temp

Preheat oven to 350F

Best Key Lime Pie Crust

• < 2 Cups crushed grahams + a few Triscuits or 3 TBSP Panko or similar bread crumbs for a lighter crust
  
• 6 Tbsp melted butter - don't overdo the butter or the crust may be soggy or greasy.
  
• 3-4 Tbsp brown sugar - don't over-do it or the crust will be too hard

Mix until evenly damp with butter and moist brown sugar

Pat mix into 9” glass or ceramic pie plate, deeper is ok,up sides but not out onto rim. Or 11" pie plate (& increase sour cream to 3/4+ cup).

It's not necessary but I like to smear butter onto the pie pan surfaces before pouring the pie crust mix in.

Use a large tablespoon to mash the crust together and to form a more solid crust up the side in the pie pan.

Bake crust 10-13 minutes until getting brown

Remove crust and allow to cool thoroughly or set in garage or outdoors to cool more-quickly as needed

Remember to turn off the oven.

Key Lime Pie Filling

While the crust is baking and then cooling (outside in the snow or on a marble countertop) combine:

• 1 C Cream cheese, softened (1 pkg Philadelphia traditional)
  
• 1 1/4 C Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 tin scraped out with spatula
  
• 1 C sour cream (best) or greek yoghurt (ok but not as rich)
  
• Juice from 4+ large lemons (plenty of lemon is good, Lime is better) - 1/2to 3/4 cup of lime/lemon juice.
  Before juicing, save zest from the skins of at least 2 limes (or lemons) and (optional: mix 2/3 into the pie filling) then sprinkle zest on pie top as decoration.
  

Mix together slowly in large mixer until completely as smooth as an otter’s pelt.

Pour that delicious filling into cooled crust and before serving, using a spatula to get all of the mix into the pie dish.

Optional: Lick the spatula.

Chill in frig for 2+ hours or freezer or in a snowbank for 1+ hours.

Cool & Serve the Key Lime Pie

Cut pie into large generous servings, biggest for the chef, and serve for dessert or for breakfast.

Key Lime Pie History

KLP Po-town for Shanna & Darcy 2024/06/24

First pie by DF for which Joanne asked that the recipe be written down for a repeat performance. This is my favorite KLP recipe.

Modified from Key Lime Pie #2 2019-Thksgvg TH-MN 2021.pdf, using Cream cheese & sour cream, no egg, no baking except crust.

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