Tag: Dessert

Key Lime Pie

Ingredients

  • 3/4 Cup Key Lime juice
  • 1/2 Cup Sour cream
  • 3 Cups Sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 Lime – zest
  • 1 Lime – halved and sliced
  • Whip cream

Directions

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees (F).
  2. Combine the sweetened condensed milk, key lime juice, sour cream, and all but 1/2 Tsp of the lime zest in a bowl and mix well.
  3. Pour the mixture into 9 or 10 inch graham cracker crust pie and place it onto a baking pan.
  4. Bake in the oven for 7 to 10 minutes until bubbles are on the top of the pie.
  5. Rest the pie on a wire rack to cool, then place it in the refrigerator to chill completely for around 90 minutes.
  6. Top with the remaining 1/2 Tsp of lime zest, sliced limes, and whipped cream, if desired.

Almond Bars, You Can’t Just Have One… or Two

Ingredients


4 eggs
2 Cups Granulated sugar
2 Cups All-purpose flour
1 Cup Unsalted butter (melted)
2 ½ Tsp Almond extract

Frosting
¼ Cup Salted butter (room temperature)
1 Cup Powdered sugar
¼ Tsp Almond extract
1 ½ Tbs Milk

Optional Topping
Thinly sliced almonds

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees (F) and use butter to grease a 13 x 9 baking pan.
  2. Beat together the eggs and sugar until lemon-colored. Add the butter, flour, and almond
    extract; mix well.
  3. Spread the batter in an even layer on a buttered 13×9-inch baking pan.
  4. Bake at 325 degrees (F) for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick or knife inserted in the center
    comes out clean.
  5. Remove pan from the oven and set aside to cool. Once cool, place in refrigerator while
    preparing the icing.
  6. Using a mixer, combine the room temperature butter, powdered sugar, milk, and almond
    extract until smooth. About 1 minute.
  7. Spread the icing evenly over the top of the cooled almond bar and place back into the
    refrigerator to set. About 30 minutes. (OPTIONAL) Top with thinly sliced almonds before placing
    back into the refrigerator to set.
  8. When cooled, cut into bars.