{"id":118725,"date":"2024-04-21T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/?p=118725"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:28:42","slug":"the-classic-florida-key-lime-pie-recipe-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/en\/2024\/04\/21\/the-classic-florida-key-lime-pie-recipe-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Classic Florida Key Lime Pie Recipe + VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are delicious desserts and this key lime pie. This classic key lime pie recipe owes its name to its being prepared with limes from the Florida Keys. Its simplicity is inversely proportional to the sumptuousness of the experience it offers to the palate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you like citrus desserts, keep reading because today, I’ll show you how to bake the authentic key lime pie, a traditional American dessert, which will make you look good every time you serve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: As a member of the Amazon Associates Program and other affiliate programs, I receive compensation for products sold through affiliate links in this post at no cost to the buyer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why you’ll love this recipe and will want to make it again and again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First, key lime pie is a delicious dessert made in less than an hour. Its flavor is the perfect harmony between the citrus of the limes and the sweetness of the sweetened condensed milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Together with the egg yolks, the mixture produces a key lime filling whose super creamy consistency contrasts with the crunch of the not-very-sweet Graham cracker crust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are Key Limes?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Key limes are much smaller than Persian limes. They are also much juicier than regular limes and have significantly more seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their flavor is less acidic than that of ordinary limes, and to me, they are very similar to the Venezuelan limones criollos<\/em>. They have thinner skin and, when squeezed, produce more juice than a regular lime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Lime Pie: a Dessert Full of History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In 1965, a Florida state representative failed to pass a law to impose a fine on anyone who called key lime pie to the pies made with limes other than those grown in the southern Florida Keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty-one years later, in 2006, the Florida House of Representatives and Senate passed the laws that make key lime pie ‘the official pie of the state of Florida.’
But even though this is a Florida recipe, key lime pie is recognized as one of the classic desserts of American cuisine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since it was created when refrigeration was not available, and dairy cows were not present in the Keys, the key lime pie was (and still is) made with canned condensed milk (which first arrived in the Keys by boat and later on the train built by Henry M. Flager), which contributes to the creamy texture of the filling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My long-standing love story with Key Lime Pie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In addition to the official one, I have my own story with himkey lime pie. I tried it for the first time at Joe\u2019s Stone Crab<\/a>, a restaurant in South Miami Beach. That was love at first bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every time I came to Miami, I made a mandatory stop at Joe’s, not precisely for its crab legs, whose fame transcends the borders of the United States, but for its well-known key lime pie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I moved to Southern California, I knew it would not be as easy as when I was single and lived in Caracas or New York to go to Joe’s to ‘kill the craving,’ as we Venezuelans say. So, I decided to do it myself, using Joe’s recipe, which I’m sharing today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ingredients to make Key Lime Pie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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To make this recipe, you will need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n