Key Lime Pie with Chocolate-Almond Crust
"I've learned how to bake without proper tools, but nothing replaces the Microplane for doing things like grating lime zest," says teen blogger and dessert aficionado Elissa Bernstein.
"I've learned how to bake without proper tools, but nothing replaces the Microplane for doing things like grating lime zest," says teen blogger and dessert aficionado Elissa Bernstein.
Recipe followed to a T
Don’t know what the person who rated this pie one star was talking about. This is a 5 star pie! I love this recipe and won 1st place with it at the coveted Mountain Fair Pie Contest! Dances with Clouds I call it! It’s amazing!
This recipe is a national disaster in a pie plate. Cooking for at least 45 minutes yielded a sloppy boiled over mess with a burned top that never firmed up. Having never made key lime pie, I went back to research what went wrong. The ratios. They are completely out of whack. Two eggs. Probably should have been 6 to 8 yolks for that amount of sweetened condensed milk. Probably too much lime juice based on the consensus of other recipes. The crust worked properly. I added 2.5 tablespoonfuls of cocoa powder to the mix resulting in a fabulous crust. Unfortunately during the filling bake the crust was ruined. Baker beware.