This weekend I was invited to a friends barbecue and asked to provide a dessert! I got myself on the Internet and decided on something new, Key Lime Pie! One of my friends is allergic to eggs so I had to find a recipe without meringue on the top and decided to go with a Nigella Lawson recipe. Here it is!
This one requires no baking as it has a digestive biscuit base, it's a pretty easy recipe really. I just put the digestives with some butter and chocolate chips in the food processor and then pressed it into the bottom of my loose bottomed tart tin. Normally with cheesecake bases I melt the butter and mix in the digestives but this recipe was a bit different. I pressed the base together and put it into the fridge while I made the filling. First job, zest four limes, then squeeze out the juice. Some of the limes were a bit hard so used a trick I learned from Jamie Oliver's tv show and just stabbed them once and popped them in the microwave for 10 secs. Lots more juice comes out if you do this! Reserve the zest for decorating the pie. Then I just popped open a can of condensed milk, and whisked in the juice of the limes, then I poured in the cream and kept whisking in my K-Mix it started to thicken up like normal whipped cream, so I took the base out of the fridge and poured in the filling and smoothed out the top as best I could!
Then it went back in the fridge until it was BBQ time!
To decorate the pie, I sprinkled over the lime zest, and grated over some dark chocolate. Et voila!!
It tasted lovely, perfectly tart, not too sweet and very light. The only problem was the biscuit base was a touch too crumbly. I don't think I'd have this problem next time if I melt the butter instead of just putting it in the food mixer. But it was really nice and so simple to make so long as you have the refrigerator time!! I'd highly recommend this to anyone looking for a dinner party dessert!!!
