Best Key Lime Pie Recipe

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Learn to make the best key lime pie with this quick recipe. This quick and easy dessert makes a delicious creamy, slightly tart, refreshing dessert.

If you like citrus desserts like my lemon which chocolate cookies, this easy key lime pie recipe will be a great addition to your recipe box.

We love lemon recipes and crafts so it’s no surprise that we’d be big fans of lemon’s cousin key lime. This is the BEST key lime pie recipe and it’s so easy.

What is key lime pie? If you’ve never had this classic lime pie it’s a creamy custard that is sweet and tart at the same time. It has a strong lime flavor and it sits on a sweet graham cracker crust.

What We Love About this Key Lime Pie Recipe

This is one of Teddy’s favorite desserts. It used to be his go to for ordering at restaurants but now he loves making it even more. It’s so easy that yes even a 6 year old can pull it off!

• It makes the BEST key lime pie. Seriously it is delicious.
• Super fast and easy. We used to buy key lime pie all the time and after I first made this I called up my mom asking her why she never told me how easy it was to make at home!
• You can freeze key lime pie. Make a batch, eat what you want, and put some in the freezer for when you need something delicious!
• You don’t have to juice a billion limes!

More Pies You’ll Love

I love pie and this is just one of my favorite easy pie recipes. While you’re here make sure to bookmark these other easy desserts!

• Raspberry Chiffon Pie – if you love the tartness of key lime pie you will love this raspberry version. It’s so good!
• Tollhouse Pie – if you like chocolate this is amazing. It’s so easy to make and tastes like all the great things of a warm chocolate chip cookie and pie mixed.
• Magic Cookie Pies – like those delicious coconut chocolate cookie bars but in pie form!
• Over 70 More Pie Recipes – seriously a little bit of everything, fruity, caramel, chocolate, savory

Key Lime Pie Ingredients

The best thing about this tasty dessert is that it is easy to have the ingredients for this on hand.

• Key Lime Juice – I use this Key West lime juice. They carry it at my local grocery store by the juice (it’s not refrigerated at the store).
• Greek Yogurt – I have used both 0% fat and 2% fat and it works great. 
• Sweetened Condensed Milk – You’ll want about 3 cups which is about 2 of the 14 oz cans.
• Lime – you will be using the zest of half the lime and the other half of the lime you’ll cut into wedges for cuteness!
• Graham Cracker Crust – I love this kind that I find at target but you can certainly use a homemade graham cracker crust similar. I use the 10 inch crust but if all you can find is a 9 inch that should work too. You’ll just have a deeper pie.
• Whipped Cream (optional) – I just use the spray can Reddi Whip stuff and it works great but if you want to make homemade whipped cream that would be delicious.

If you’re using a premed crust like I usually do the only toll I would recommend is a good quality citrus zester. It makes the job so much easier!

When making my own graham cracker crust I use the same technique for making the graham cracker base of my white chocolate blueberry cheesecake recipe.

If you’re making your own crust make sure to have a good pie pan. I grew up with tin ones but I love these glass pie pans!

For making homemade whipped cream I use this easy recipe but the spray stuff works great and makes for way less clean up!

Sour Cream Key Lime Pie

Can you use sour cream instead of greek yogurt for your lime pie? Absolutely! I just always have greek yogurt on hand and I love the extra protein I get so that’s what I use.

But if you prefer sour cream that would definitely work.

How to Make Key Lime Pie

This easy key lime pie recipe is great for making when you want something delicious with almost zero work. It’s so easy you can even make a non-cooking spouse or kid be in charge ;)

1. Pour key lime juice. Use a bowl big enough to hold all the ingredients and start by pouring in the key west lime juice.
2. Add yogurt. Next add the yogurt
3. Add the sweetened condensed milk. Pour in all the sweetened condensed milk.
4. Zest half a lime. Zest half a lime and add that into the bowl. Put the lime back in the refrigerator as you will use it when you serve the pie. This is my favorite zester, it works so well!
5. Mix well. Mix all the key lime pie filling ingredients together. I just use a spatula. No need to dirty anything else!
6. Pour into crust. Once your filling is smooth and well combined, pour it all into your graham cracker crust.
7. Bake. Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes. You should see small bubbles start to pop on the pie surface.
8. Allow to cool. Let the pie cool at room temperature.
9. Chill. Put in the refrigerator to chill over night or for at least 5 hours. I always cover with a layer of plastic wrap.
10. Serve. Add a dollop of whipped cream and cut a small wedge of your reserved lime for each slice.

How Long Does Key Lime Pie Last?

This easy key lime pie recipe will last for 3-5 days. It’s delicious and keeps for a bit but I have noticed that the consistency starts to change around day 5.

If you want to make it ahead of time or keep it longer I suggest using my tips for freezing key lime pie below.

Frozen Key Lime Pie

Can you freeze your key lime pie? Yes you can absolutely freeze your pie. You can freeze it whole or put a portion in the freezer.

Bake your lime pie like normal and allow to cool completely. Place in a freezer friendly container and stick in the freezer. When you are ready to eat it just put it in the refrigerator to thaw before you eat it.

Delicious Lemon Recipes You’ll Love

For some more fresh citrus flavor these lemon recipes will do the job.

• Minted Watermelon Lemon Shakes – so refreshing and flavorful easy lemonade based shakes
• Cake Mix Lemon Cookies – these are my husbands favorite. Only a handful of ingredients make them one of my favorites to bake!
• Lemon Wilted Spinach – fast and easy veggie that the whole family loves. Tons of great nutrition and ready in just a few minutes.
• Lemon Pea Dumplings – kind of like delicious homemade pea lemon and cheese tortellini
• Zucchini and Lemon Quinoa Salad – this is a great salad for pot lucks or just to have as an easy side with chicken sausage or fish.

I hope you love it as much as we do!

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