Recipe
Key Lime Bars
August 24, 2020
Quick facts
12 ingredients
7 steps
Ingredients
- Crust
- 11 oz box of vanilla wafers
- 2 tbls sugar
- 8 tbls / 115 grams of butter
- Filling
- 1.75 cup / 420 ML condensed milk (14 oz can plus .5 cups)
- 5 Large egg yolks
- 3/4 cup key lime juice (180ml)
- 1 tsp lime zest
- Topping
- 1 cup cold heavy cream
- 1 tbls confectioners' sugar
Steps
- 1
Heat oven to 350 degrees
- 2
Line 9 inch square pan with parchment paper.
- 3
In a food processor, combine vanilla wafers and sugar until you have crumbs. Add butter and continue to process.
- 4
Transfer to pan and press into an even layer, bake for 15 to 17 minutes until fragrant.
- 5
To prepare the filling, whisk together condesned milk, egg yolks, lime juice, and zest.
- 6
Pour filling into crust (ok if it's still warm). Bake until filling is set, about 15 minutes.
- 7
Transfer to cooling rack, cover, then refrigerate for 4 hours.