hi guys welcome back to clumsy cakes my name is Aimee.
So august is officially here and that means that where i live in the united
states, summer is ending unfortunately. And i could not let summer
end without showing you guys how to make a summer classic. It's a
bright. zesty, delicious key lime pie and key lime
pie looks so elegant and fancy and
intimidating but i promise you it is so simple to make and so quick actually
and i'm going to be showing you step by step how to make it.
So let's get started. i've broken this video down into time codes that you can
see here and you can also find the
ingredients for this recipe down in the description and also on
my blog www.clumsycakes.com, and also if you would like to get any of
the tools that i use in this recipe links for those will also be down in the
description. So we're going to start by putting these
crackers in this bag.
now a lot of times i don't put extra sugar
in my crust but this pie is pretty tart so it needs some sweetness
to balance it out, so i'm putting two tablespoons
in there of that and then my half of a stack of melted butter seal
the bag.
Massage that around um if you are doing the bag method
just better thing to do would be to use a bag
that you know the bags with the plastic tab thing that you can run
along the bag and it will seal it you want to get those just for some
extra insurance. I was intending on using my
food processor as i always do and i couldn't find it, so that's what i have available to me.
Just make sure you don't rush this step just um
take your time and make sure this is packed down pretty well because if it's
not your crust is going to fall apart and
you're not really going to have a pie you're gonna have a,
i don't even know what you would really call it but you just have kind of a mush.
And this is gonna go into my 350 degree preheated oven
for about 10 minutes or until it's golden brown around
the edges. Alright so now we're going to
blend up the rest of our filling and we're just going to use a blender.
And some of you may be thinking to yourselves "Aimee why didn't you use that
for the crust?"
i honestly didn't think about it and if you could
back off that'd be cool. (chuckle)
sweetened condensed milk. egg yolks
come on, go in there and then our sour cream and as
i've said before you can always use greek yogurt in place
of sour cream. It would obviously have to be plain greek yogurt but
that is always an option. Alright and now that has started i'm
just gonna trickle in my um lime zest and lime juice.
Alright so i'm just going to give this one last mix,
to make sure everything is incorporated.
Another thing you can do to um ensure that your crust
stays together in one piece after you slice it is you can
put it in the freezer for about an hour before
you go to put the filling in and bake it. Um this is also what i do with all of my
cheesecakes to make sure that the crust stays together for that.
Essentially what a Key Lime Pie is
is a baked custard like a cheesecake so that's why
i'm making so many comparisons to cheesecakes,
because essentially it's the same thing there's a little bit different
ingredients, there's no cream cheese but essentially it's the same thing.
This is going to bake for a lot less time than your typical cheesecake would.
Like a cheesecake this is going to go in to bake and you're going to
be able to tell that it's ready when you go in and jiggle it and um the
edges will be set and will not move but the
middle will jiggle just slightly and um i do have a video that i'll link up
in the cards and also down this down in the
description or if you would like to see what that
looks. So it's going to go in for about 10 minutes.
And once that's done you're going to shut the oven off ,you're going to take
the pie out and just let it cool on your counter until it's at room
temperature and then you're going to stick it into the fridge,
overnight. Usually what people do is a minimum of four hours but
what i always like to do when making something like this is i like to let it
set and chill in the fridge overnight, so what's going to do and
so i will see you guys tomorrow.
Alright so that is the finished pie if
you guys liked this video and you learned
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Bye