Does anyone have a really good Key Lime Pie recipe? (I would like to make my own crust too) We had the best Key Lime Pie on our honeymoon and its become my new obsession!  Also, do you squeeze your own limes or do you buy the juice in a bottle? Just curious which would work better!

TIA!!!

No recipies here, but typically I would just buy the juice in a bottle, but my friend does have a key lime tree in her backyard and makes them from scratch the real way!  yum!

Oh- and a "real" key lime pie should be yellow and not green, so don't think it is strange if it does not come out green bc that is typically just food coloring :)

Thanks! We have a citrus juicer so I was considering using that instead of buying the juice... Yeah I knew it should be more yellow - I like that color better anyway :P

I found a recipe on allrecipes.com but I wanted people I trusts opinion :P

I absolutely love Key Lime Pie and I actually collected a few different recipes (just by googling), but I haven't tried them so far...

Awesome Key Lime Pie

3/4-1 cup lime juice (more juice if you like more tart--and NOT in the bottle!!!)
5 egg yolks
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon lime zest

1 graham crust
1 tablespoon cinnamon spread evenly on crust (this is what makes it AWESOME)

mix all ingredients in a bowl, pour into crust.  bake at 300 for 10 minutes.

i use whipped cream (yeah, the real stuff, not cool whip) instead of the egg merainge (sp) but you can do either.

this is BY FAR, the BEST key lime pie i have ever had.  hope you enjoy!

I will have to try the recipe this week.

That recipe sounds tasty! I wonder how this would work for little individual pies.

kalenalena--it works the same, but obviously cut down on the cinnamon per little pie ;)

and, dork that i am, i forgot to say that you'll need to refrigerate overnight before cutting into the pie so it sets up... :P

I made Key Lime Pie one time, trying to impress the guy I was dating.  The recipe said to add "a few drops" of green food coloring, if desired.  I added a few drops.....and had a shamrock green key lime pie.  I was soooooo embarrassed.  But it was still delicious....and we had a good laugh over it.

I used the recipe I found on allrecipes.com, it turned out pretty good. My husband decided we needed to create the sauce they put around the keylime pie we had on our honeymoon and it was way to sour... Thanks Babe! :P Here what I did:

Graham Cracker Crust Ingredients

Directions

Key Lime Pie Ingredients

Directions

* I doubled the filling because I was using a 10" pie pan and some reviews said it wasn't enough filling using just the above. I also didn't freeze it, but put it in the fridge overnight. I put the whipped cream on the top the next day by using heavy cream and fluffing it up and adding some suger to sweeten it.