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summer dessert week: no bake coconut key lime pie

summer dessert week: no bake coconut key lime pie

Ingredients

  • FOR THE CRUST:
  • 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
  • 6 tbs butter melted
  • 1/4 cup shredded coconut
  • FOR THE KEY LIME LAYER:
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 4 ounces key lime juice
  • FOR THE COCONUT CREAM LAYER:
  • 1 pkg instant coconit cream pie filling prepared according to pie directions on box
  • OPTIONAL:
  • sweetened sredded coconut toasted for garnish

Instructions

  • FOR THE CRUST:
  • mix the graham crumbs, butter and cocnut in a bowl and press into a 8″ pie shell
  • place in refrigerator until firm
  • FOR THE KEY LIME FILLING:
  • mix the eggs yolk, milk, vanilla and lime juice
  • pour into pie shell and place in refrigerator until firm (the acid in the lime juice “cooks” the egg yolks)
  • optional: bake at 350F for 10min
  • FOR THE COCONUT CREAM LAYER:
  • pour prepared pie filling over firm key lime layer.
  • FREEZE until firm
  • Allow to set at room temp for 5-10 min before slicing.
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