Key Lime Pie

Hello all! What a gloomy Monday it is.

Well, don’t feel too sad that you should be tucked in bed right now instead of (insert where you don’t prefer to be) cause I have here for you, a Key Lime Pie. I’m still sorting out my photos and travelogues from my Summer trip to London and Europe, so I guess you won’t be able to see posts for that for a while. But I will make it up by posting more cakes 🙂 Or tarts.

How come it’s not green ? Yeah cause there’s no colouring aight? A salty crumbly biscuit base, milky sweet and tangy custard filling topped with a lightly whipped whipped cream. Oh hang on. What is the difference between a tart and pie ?

A pie is a sweet or savory dish with a crust and a filling. The sides of a pie dish or pan are sloped. It can have a just a bottom, just a top, or both a bottom and a top crust. A pie crust is traditionally made of flour, salt, cold water, and lard (or shortening) but many pie crust recipes use a combination of fats such as butter, lard, or vegetable shortening, or just butter. The goal is a crisp, flaky crust. Pies are served straight from the dish in which they were baked.

A tart is a sweet or savory dish with shallow sides and only a bottom crust. Tart crusts are usually made from pastry dough: traditionally flour, unsalted butter, cold water, and sometimes sugar. The goal is a firm, crumbly crust. Tarts are baked in a pan with a removable bottom, or in pastry ring on top of a baking sheet so that it can be unmolded before serving.

(source : The Kitchn)

So traditionally, key lime pies, are made in pie moulds which is sloped, and deep. But because I couldn’t get any decent ones (I can’t be bringing ceramic pie moulds to my baking demo classes and risk breaking them) I decided to just make it in a tart mould, hence I really think it should be called key lime tart.

The ingredients are fairly simple. As you may or may not know, I conduct demo classes in Jaya Grocer in Intermark, KL (Sundays) and Empire Shopping Mall in Subang Jaya (Saturdays). Each session only takes about 1 hour, hence I need to make things which are simple, easy and quick for home makers or just people who want to have free food while grocery shopping (HAHA).

For the filling, use key lime juice (Limau Nipis), condensed milk and egg yolk. But if I may stern on it, it is IMPORTANT (actually, make that vital) to use imported condensed milk for this. Here’s why. (read this too if you have time)

Look at the ingredients list the next time you shop for local condensed milk and compare it with the imported ones. The main ingredient, milk solids, is actually replaced by ‘something else’. Now if you google homemade condensed milk, you’d know that the key to making condensed milk is by cooking milk and sugar  till the water evaporates and thus, leaving you with a thick, dense sweet milk. The milk solids fat from a real tin of condensed milk will set when baked with it’s help by combining egg yolks. It gives it a nice velvety and creamy texture. So really, my fellow Malaysians, please, the next time you buy something from the supermarket, check the ingredients.

Did I talk too much ? hehe.

Key Lime Pie

 

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Ingredients

Crust

• 150g Digestive biscuit (ground)
• 40g Salted Butter, melted
• 20g Sugar

Filling

• 1 can Condensed milk (400g, only use imported condensed milk)
• 4 nos Yolks
• 100ml Lime juice (8-12 lime / limau nipis)
• 1 tsp Lime zest

Topping

• 100ml Whipping Cream
• Lime zest

Instructions

1. Blend digestive biscuits to a crumb that is not too fine. Add melted butter and sugar, and mix well.
2. Press mixture evenly onto 9” deep pie tin. Bake at 170 C for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and let it cool.
3. For the filling, whisk egg yolks for 2 minutes, add in condensed milk and whisk for another 2 minutes. Gradually pour in lime juice and whisk another 2-3 minutes to let mixture be homogenized.
4. Strain mixture over a fine sieve to remove fine bubbles. Add in lime zest. Mix. Pour into pie shell.
5. Bake at 170 C for about 15 minutes or until set. Allow to chill in the fridge for 1 hour then top with whipped cream and lime zest (optional).

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