Recipe: It’s a Winner Key Lime Pie
Key Lime Pie
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup fresh squeezed key lime juice (*About 9-10 limes)
4 egg yolks (*separated)
Whipped Cream
In a large bowl, whip the egg yolks and blend with the condensed milk. Add in the key lime juice and mix until juice is mixed in, do not over beat. Pour into a 9″ graham cracker pie crust. Chill overnight and top with whipped cream. Serve.
*Johnna’s tip: Oh how we miss posting fun recipes. It is Spring time and we have a few seasonal recipes that we are itching to share with you. This one comes from our reader out of Gaithersburg who won the Sugarloaf Festival Giveaway we hosted on our site last week (*Congrats!). We asked readers to submit their favorite sweet treat recipes and we would choose the one that stood out to us. Key lime pie is a staple Spring/Summer dessert and we could not resist especially after seeing how the instructions were incredibly easy. Continue to send in your recipes and we will post them…especially the BBQ recipes, we love good grill food.
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup fresh squeezed key lime juice (*About 9-10 limes)
4 egg yolks (*separated)
Whipped Cream
In a large bowl, whip the egg yolks and blend with the condensed milk. Add in the key lime juice and mix until juice is mixed in, do not over beat. Pour into a 9″ graham cracker pie crust. Chill overnight and top with whipped cream. Serve.
*Johnna’s tip: Oh how we miss posting fun recipes. It is Spring time and we have a few seasonal recipes that we are itching to share with you. This one comes from our reader out of Gaithersburg who won the Sugarloaf Festival Giveaway we hosted on our site last week (*Congrats!). We asked readers to submit their favorite sweet treat recipes and we would choose the one that stood out to us. Key lime pie is a staple Spring/Summer dessert and we could not resist especially after seeing how the instructions were incredibly easy. Continue to send in your recipes and we will post them…especially the BBQ recipes, we love good grill food.
Category: sweets
About the Author (Author Profile)
Johnna French is a Harlem NY native with deep roots in Panama, Washington, DC and North Carolina. All four places have heavily influenced her life and the foods she loves today. After graduating Howard University School of Law and beginning her life as a young professional in the city she was led to start Johnna Knows Good Food in November 2007 to keep family, friends and colleagues updated on where to go and what to eat while dining in the nation’s capitol. French, who still practices law, leads a team of three writers to cover the ever expanding Washington, DC food scene. French has been featured in print and television, appearing in Washingtonian Magazine and is a regular contributor to various local TV affiliates including WUSA 9, FOX 5 DC and WJLA (ABC Affiliate) News Channel 8. During the 2016-2017 football season, Johnna aired on Comcast Sports Mid-Atlantic (CSN) show, Redskins Life, as the weekly tailgate host. Johnna is currently a regular contributor to the FOX Baltimore Weekend morning show.Subscribe
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