Key Lime Buttermilk Icebox Pie With Baked Buttery Cracker Crust Recipes

Steps:

• For the crust: Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-inch pie plate. Put the crackers in a food processor and pulse until they form fine crumbs. Add the butter, sugar and egg white and pulse until the mixture comes together like wet sand (it should hold together when pinched). Transfer to the prepared pie plate and press evenly into the bottom and up the sides. Bake until lightly golden, about 10 minutes. Let cool completely.
• For the filling: Whisk together the condensed milk, lime juice, salt and egg yolks in a medium bowl. Pour into the cooked pie shell and bake until the filling is set and only slightly jiggles in the center, 18 to 20 minutes. Let cool completely at room temperature and then refrigerate, loosely covered with plastic wrap, until chilled, about 2 hours or up to overnight.
• Prepare the garnish: Use a citrus zester to make strips of zest. Then cut away all of the peel and white pith (save the other half for another use). Cut the lime "meat" into small chunks.
• Fill a piping bag fitted with a star tip with whipped cream. Pipe mounds of whipped cream around the edges of the pie and decorate with chunks of lime and zest. Serve immediately or return to the refrigerator to chill until serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Make the crust: Process crushed cookies or crackers, sugar, and (if used) salt in a food processor until finely crushed and well combined. Add melted butter, and process until thoroughly combined. Press on bottom, up sides, and onto lip of a lightly greased (with cooking spray) 9-inch regular pie plate or 9-inch deep-dish pie plate. Freeze 30 minutes to 1 hour or while preparing fillings. Make the filling: Whisk together first 3 ingredients for the filling in a bowl. Beat egg yolks with a handheld mixer in a medium bowl at high speed 4 to 5 minutes or until yolks become pale and ribbons form on surface of mixture when beater is lifted. Gradually whisk in sweetened condensed milk mixture, and whisk until thoroughly combined; whisk in buttermilk. Pour mixture into prepared crust. Bake at 325° for 20 to 25 minutes or until set around edges. (Pie will be slightly jiggly.) Cool on a wire rack 1 hour. Cover pie with lightly greased (with cooking spray) plastic wrap, and freeze 4 to 6 hours. Top with sweetened whipped cream.

Steps:

• For the crust:.
• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Pulse crackers and sugar in food processor until finely ground.
• Add melted butter in steady stream, while pulsing, until crumbs resemble damp sand.
• Using bottom of dry measuring cup, press crumbs firmly into bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate.
• Bake until fragrant and browned around edges, 12 to 14 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• For the filling:.
• Process sugar and zest in food processor until sugar turns bright green, about 30 seconds.
• Add cream cheese and process until combined, about 30 seconds.
• Add condensed milk and pudding mix and process until smooth, about 30 seconds.
• Scrape down sides of bowl.
• Stir gelatin and 2 tablespoons lime juice in small bowl.
• Heat in microwave for 15 seconds.
• Stir until dissolved.
• With machine running, pour gelatin mixture, remaining lime juice and vanilla through feed tube and mix until thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds.
• Pour filling into cooled crust, cover with plastic and refrigerate at least 3 hours or up to 2 days.
• To serve, let pie sit at room temperature for 10 minutes before slicing and garnishing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Combine the egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk and lime juice. Mix well. Pour into unbaked graham cracker shell.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Allow to cool. Top with whipped topping and garnish with lime slices if desired.