Easy Key Lime Pie

This super easy recipe for key lime pie is simple yet delicious! It's creamy, sweet and tart all in one bite. Top with whipped cream and lime slices. Made with sour cream and sweetened condensed milk in a graham cracker crust. No baking required!

This is the Mr.'s favorite dessert: key lime pie.

★ Why You'll Love this Recipe ★

No baking required!

This tangy, cool pie is a popular treat, originating from the tropical paradise, Key West. There's a lot to love about this pie, it's quite unique on all accounts.

It's not a warm pie, it actually doesn't even need to be baked! The texture is completely blended and silky smooth, not quite like any other pie or dessert really.

Then there's the flavor. It extremely tangy! Zesty limes combined with creamy sweetness really zings your tongue in a very good way!

Try it for special occasions.

It's a fun dessert for summer picnics, birthdays, or we like to make it on St. Patrick's day because of it's pretty green coloring.

★ Ingredients You'll Need ★

You only need 7 total ingredients to make this key lime pie, completely from-scratch including the crust!

Here's a look at everything you need:

You can buy a ready-made graham cracker crust to save time, or if you have some graham crackers laying around, it's not hard to make your own crust.

The magic happens in the middle so the crust isn't as important.

★ How to Make this recipe ★

Key lime pie is surprisingly easy to make!

For such complex flavors, this pie is actually really easy to make homemade. Here are the basic steps involved (full recipe is below):

• Combine crust ingredients and press into pie pan.
• Heat crust to set if desired or skip for a more crumbly crust.
• Mix together filling ingredients.
• Pour filling into pie crust.
• Chill.
• Top with whipped cream, lime zest and lime slices.

Easy!

★ Tips & FAQs ★

What does key lime pie taste like?

Key lime pie is very creamy, sweet and tart. The texture is thick and velvety. Similar to pudding but a bit more firm.

This pie is very rich. You'll only need a little slice to satisfy a craving. I like to top it with light and airy whipped cream to balance out the intense flavor.

Do you have to bake key lime pie?

Not this version. This recipe does not call for eggs so there's no need to bake anything but the crust.

However, you can get away with not baking the crust if you don't mind it being a little crumbly or you can use a ready-made graham cracker crust.

When you bake the crust you're essentially melting the sugar to make it stick together. So you could actually just press it into a glass pie pan, and then microwave it for about a minute and it would work just fine and hold together nicely.

So skip the baking, and make this a no-bake key lime pie which is just perfect for summer.

What I really enjoy about this and what I consider the "secret" ingredient is the sour cream. It really compliments and enhances the natural juices of the key limes.

Where to Find Key Limes

Well, depending on the season and the store, you may be bale to pick up a bag of key limes and fresh squeeze them. However, almost all stores, any time of the year, carry bottled key lime juice.

This Nellie & Joe's brand of key lime juice is usually easy to come by and so is what I normally use.

Does this taste like authentic Key Lime Pie?

If you've been lucky enough to enjoy a slice of authentic key lime pie then this will take you back!

Whether you've been there or not though — this recipe will have you feeling the tropical vibes with each silky smooth bite.

The verdict is out whether the first, original key lime pie recipe contained eggs or not. Some recipes call for the use eggs whites or egg yolks.

This recipe requires no eggs at all. Since we're using sweetened condensed milk, the pie holds together just fine without the use of eggs as a binder.

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This easy, no-bake key lime pie recipe was featured on South Your Mouth!