Key Lime Pie

The problem with dieting is sometime you just want to cheat, I have a cheat day once a week and this weeks cheat was a Key Lime Pie, this is how I made it.

Ingredients
55g (2oz) of butter
140g (5oz) of digestive biscuits
3 eggs, separated
405g (14oz) of condensed milk
Zest and juice of 3 limes
85g(3oz) Caster sugar

How it do it.

melting the butter and biscuit mix

crushing the biscuit

Start by crushing the biscuits, melt the butter and add this to the biscuits, place the biscuit mixture into a 7" tin to form and even base, chill for 15 minutes.

Ready for the mix

preheat the oven to 180C 160C for fan ovens or gas mark 4.


Separate the eggs, mix the egg yolks with the condensed milk and mix together for 1 minute


separated eggs

then stir in the lime zest and juice, pour the mixture over the biscuit base and transfer the tin to the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes until set. remove from the oven and allow to cool.










With a clean whisk, beat the egg whites to stiff peaks form then fold in the caster sugar,
pour the meringue onto the pie and spread out making peaks as you go, return to the oven and bake for a further 5 minutes until browned.
leave to cool and enjoy.

Simple and delicious