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Key lime pie

Recipe
Dessert
Cake

A creamy cake classic from Florida with fresh lime juice and a crispy cookie base - ideal for hotter days.

The Editors
The quantity in the recipe is sufficient for a cake tin with a diameter of between 24 and 26 cm.

For the floor

Ingredients
300 g Butter cookies
80 g Butter (melted)
pinch Cinnamon

For the filling

Ingredients
500 g Cream cheese (heavy cream stage)
300 g Condensed milk (sweetened)
3 Limes (juice and zest)
200 g Whipped cream as decoration
  • Preheat the oven to 175 °C (top/bottom heat).
  • Finely crumble the cookies, melt the butter, mix well and press well to form a base.
  • Pre-bake the base for 10 minutes, then leave to cool slightly.
  • For the filling, whip the cream cheese with a hand mixer and slowly pour in the sweet condensed milk, refine with lime juice and lime zest.
  • Pour the lime mixture onto the cooled base and chill in the tin for several hours or preferably overnight.
  • Finally, whip the whipped cream until stiff and spread over the mixture as a topping. Decorate the edges with thin slices of lime and lime zest as desired.

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