Incredibly simple, but beautiful and tasty dessert is perfect suitable for summer. Lime pie is considered classic American dessert and even recognized as the official state cake Florida. The first official mention of the recipe dates back to the one 9th century, but it is likely that the sailors were preparing something similar much earlier. This can explain the use of condensed milk that will not go bad without a refrigerator and crackers, because in The classic recipe for cake does not require baking. It is frozen a variant of this pie was invented later, in the 20th столетии. 
Time: 25 мин. a plus setting time Difficulty: easy Servings: 8 Used in recipes volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Korzh
- 1.5 tbsp. crumbled graham crackers (10 crackers)
- 1/4 Art. Sahara
- 85 gr. melt butter
Pie
- 6 large egg yolks, room temperature *
- 1/4 Art. Sahara
- 400 gr. condensed milk
- 2 tbsp. l grated lime zest
- 3/4 Art. freshly squeezed lime juice (with 4-5 limes)
Topping
- 1 tbsp. (250 ml.) Cold fat cream
- 1/4 Art. Sahara
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- Thin Lime Slices
Recipes with similar ingredients: shortbread cookies, lime zest, lime juice, vanilla extract, condensed milk, cream, eggs
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat oven to 175 ° C. Cake: mix in a bowl crumbs from crackers with sugar and butter. Push to the bottom and 23 cm to the walls. cake molds, make sure the thickness is everywhere It turned out the same. Bake for 10 minutes to make cakes hardened and browned. Allow to cool completely.
- Stuffing: in the mixer bowl, with installed with a spatula, beat egg yolks at high speed with sugar for 5 minutes, until they become dense. With a mixer running at medium speed, add condensed milk, zest and lime juice. Pour into baked cake and freeze.
- Decoration: in the bowl of the electric mixer with installed with a whisk, beat the cream at high speed until formation of high peaks. Add sugar and vanilla and beat until dense consistency.
- Decorate the cake with a spoon or pastry bag. cream and garnish with lime wedges. Put in the freezer on a few hours or at night. Cook’s notes * If you are confused raw eggs in the recipe, mix the yolks with 0.5 tbsp. lime juice from list of ingredients and place them in a water bath. With moderate heat, constantly stirring with a whisk, wait until the temperature the mixture does not reach 60 ° C. Use instead of raw egg yolks, do not forget to add the remaining 1/4 tbsp. lime juice to mixture for toppings with condensed milk and zest.
