Key Lime Bars
There’s something about living on this island that makes me crave a number of things everyday. Ice cream or shaved ice, piña coladas, and lots of fresh citrus. I can’t deny that I’ve had one or more everyday but rationalize that all the swimming makes it a reasonable choice. Seems like sound logic to me.
When I spotted these at the farmers market, they begged, no screamed to come home with me. What I’d do with them, I knew instantly.
httpv://youtu.be/3tDbMxVX9hU
Key Lime Bars
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Author: The Squishy Monster
Serves: 4-6 Servings
Ingredients
Crust
- 5 oz cookies {for me, it was 2 dozen ginger snaps}
- 4 tb melted, salted butter
Filling
- 2 oz room temperature cream cheese
- ½ tb key lime zest
- 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk
- Pinch of salt
- 1 room temperature large egg yolk
- ½ c fresh key lime juice
- ½ tb unbleached flour
Instructions
- For the crust, crush the cookies {you can use graham/animal crackers, ginger snaps, biscotti, etc} and combine with the melted butter. Push onto a pan to form a crush and bake at 350 for 12-14 minutes. Cool.
- For the filling, creamy together the cream cheese, zest, and condensed milk. Add the salt and blend in the yolk.
- Slowly stream in the lime juice and mix until well combined but make sure not to over mix. You don’t want too much air incorporated into the filling.
- Lastly, sprinkle in the flour.
- Fill the crust with the filling and bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Set on a cooling rack then transfer to the fridge to set for a minimum of 3-4 hours or overnight.
Love,
Your Squishy Monster ^.~
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I love these, so perfect for a summer treat!
The bars look elegant and delicious, Angela. Well done!
These bars look fantastic Angela! I love key lime pie and in bar form sounds even better
One amazing recipe.. so perfectly done!
I LOVE KEY LIME PIE and this is so lovely and delicious looking Angie! You also look so happy, vivacious and LOVELY at the beach! Thanks for sharing this with us! Have a lovely day!
xoxoxoxo.
Les
Yum! I love citrus in baking and limes are so delicious!
What delicious little treats! Everything one finds in a key lime pie, but a lot lighter. Thanks for showing how easy they are to make.
I love key lime pie so I’d love these bars. I can’t get fresh key lime juice in Australia but I did import a bottle of it. I think it will work!
how apt for island living
When food begs, good on you for giving it what it needed
These look so good and so easy! I love it when a recipe has less than 10 ingredients. Makes me just want to get into the kitchen and make them right now!
Too bad my urban island does not give me the same feeling, must be the lack of beaches lol. The bars do look wonderful, love key lime.
you can make it into a Margarita Ville cheese cake bar with adding alcohol! hehe hope u having sun-shinny day without rainstorms!
Yum!!! what a great recipe!! I love dessert and all things sweet!!
You sure are thriving in that island living, Angela. I’m so happy for you:) Key Lime anything is a must for these sultry days. Your bar sound just perfect! Thank you so much for sharing, Angela…I’m off to watch the video…
Mmm I love key lime pie and would be all over these key lime bars! So summery!
These sound like citrusy dreams!
Sweet + tart balance, indeed! Looks great. And baked goods are always a fab way to meet neighbors