Key Lime Pie for Jeremy
Key Lime Pie is a famous speciality from the Keys region of southern Florida.
This delicious tart is usually made with Key limes - a special variety. But in this simplified version, normal limes will work perfectly well.
This delicious tart is usually made with Key limes - a special variety. But in this simplified version, normal limes will work perfectly well.
3 hours 50 min.
Easy
5.85 €
1 pie
5 IngredientsLast modified on: September 30th 2012
For 1 pie, you will need:
- 1
200 g sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) - 2
4 limes - 3
4 egg yolks - 4
400 g sweetened condensed milk - 5
250 ml Chantilly cream - Total weight: 1,370 grams
Times for this recipe
Preparation: 1 hour 35 min.
Resting: 2 hours
Cooking: 15 min.
All in all: 3 hours 50 min.
If you start now, at , you will finish around : ?.Change start time
To finish around 7pm, you'll need to have started before: .Change end time
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - ⌛ 1 hour
Stage 2 - ⌛ 5 min.
Squeeze 4 limes, which should give you about 125 ml of juice.
Stage 3 - ⌛ 2 min.
Add the zest of one lime to the juice.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (360°F).
Preheat the oven to 180°C (360°F).
Stage 4
Put 4 egg yolks into a food-processor bowl.
Stage 5 - ⌛ 5 min.
Beat on maximum speed for about 5 minutes until the yolks plump up a little in volume.
Stage 6 - ⌛ 3 min.
Reduce the beater speed slightly and slowly pour in 400 g sweetened condensed milk.
Stage 7 - ⌛ 3 min.
Reduce the beater speed further and slowly pour in the lime juice and zest.
Stage 8
Continue beating for a few more minutes until the mixture is fairly light.
Stage 9 - ⌛ 2 min.
Pour this filling into the tart case.
Stage 10 - ⌛ 15 min.
Cook for 10-15 minutes, just until the filling sets (check this by shaking the dish gently from side to side).
Stage 11 - ⌛ 2 hours
Leave to cool, then cover with stretch plastic film and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Stage 12 - ⌛ 15 min.
Just before serving, cover the top with rosettes of Chantilly (whipped cream).
Stage 13
Your Key lime pie is ready.
Stage 14
You can replace if you prefer, like Jeremy, Chantilly cream by a meringue French or Italian, so in that case brown the top like in a pear and lime meringue pie.
Remarks
This recipe is very well known in the USA and is typical of the South. There are many different variations: with meringue topping instead of cream, crushed biscuits and butter instead of pastry, etc.
You can find mediocre versions all over Florida. These are ususally over-sweet, artificially flavoured and green coloured. Now, a good Key lime pie is not green!
You can find mediocre versions all over Florida. These are ususally over-sweet, artificially flavoured and green coloured. Now, a good Key lime pie is not green!
Keeping: A few hours in the fridge, protected with plastic film.
Source: Based on a recipe by Stephanie Jaworski.
Nutritional information
| Proteins (gr) | Carbohydrates (gr) | Fats (gr) | Energy value (in k-calories) | Energy value (in k-joules) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole recipe | 250 RDI=100 % | 1,330 RDI=130 % | 970 RDI=150 % | 15,080 RDI=750 % | 63,130 RDI: 750 % |
| Per 100 g | 20 RDI=7 % | 100 RDI=9 % | 70 RDI=10 % | 1,100 RDI=60 % | 4,610 RDI: 60 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 1 pie : 5.85 €
Change currency:
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Chantilly cream
You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Peach Melba, Frozen nougat, Peach and blackcurrant sundae, Pear verbena tarts, Cranachan, ... See them all 30
Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: How to roll out pastry for a tart, Tatin apple diplomat tart, Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart, Pear and lime meringue pie, Blackcurrant and chestnut verrines, ... See them all 45
Lime
Like these other recipes: Rum babas, X-Files cookies, Shiro-goma salad, Chicken club sandwich, Blackcurrant, vanilla and lime verrine , ... See them all 53
Other recipes you may also like
Praline rochers
Here is how to prepare your own chocolate rochers with a chocolate praline filling covered in milk chocolate and chopped torrified almonds. August 28th 2011209 K5 3 hours 15 min.
Ardéchois
Ardéchois is a deliciously moist regional cake with chestnut cream. April 6th 202511 K 1 hour
Exotic fruit tart
An exotic fruit tart (bananas, kiwi and pineapple), with crisp pastry and almond cream which are cooked beforehand. It's a rather simple recipe, but the final result will impress your guests. May 27th 2020336 K5 2 hours 25 min.
Crème brulée
Crème brûlée (burned cream) is quite easy to prepare: it's a simple egg-cream dessert. The only difficulty is in making the delicious crunchy caramel layer on top. The perfect crème brulée (for me) is a cold and soft cream, with on top a nice hot caramel crust. This is a completely new version of the former recipe, with video. December 31th 20111.68 M 74.3 4 hours 40 min.
Passion fruit jellies
Usually to make fruit jellies or (fruit "paste"), it's like jam but you need to cook fruit pulp and sugar much longer. Unfortunately, this long cooking is bad for both vitamins and flavour. In this recipe we use a special jam gelling agent, to reduce cooking time as much as possible . July 4th 2018347 K4 2 hours 30 min.
News list of cooking-ez.com
Sign up to receive the latest recipes (next batch due to be sent on 2025-11-23)
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Follow this recipe
If you are interested in this recipe, you can "follow" it, by entering your email address here. You will then receive a notification immediately each time the recipe is modified or a new comment is added. Please note that you will need to confirm this following.
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Alternatively: you can subscribe to the mailing list of cooling-ez.com , you will receive a e-mail for each new recipe published on the site.
The 1 comment already posted on this recipe
Manal