Summertime with Key Lime Pie

Since I'm on summer vacation and not currently teaching (however I am working on school things daily of course. Teachers are crazy like that.) I thought I would dedicate my first post to a lovely baking concoction I whipped up a few days ago, Key Lime Pie. I saw Key Lime Pie at the store last week and it reminded me of one of my favorite restaurants here in Phoenix, Chelsea's Kitchen, that has the best Key Lime Pie and had been craving it ever since. So, I found this delicious recipe from Hummingbird High and decided to give it a try.

Mind you, this was my first attempt at baking Key Lime Pie and it will not be my last! I've made pies before but this one was quite a treat.

I started with baking the homemade graham cracker crust which is traditional for Key Lime Pie. This recipe is amazing! I will definitely be making this again not just for graham cracker crust!

 While the dough was refrigerating I whipped up the key lime filling. Now since Arizona does not have real Key Limes I cheated and used half Key Lime juice and half fresh lime juice from plain ol' limes.

 Once the filling was made, I put that in the refrigerator to cool and then rolled out and baked the graham crackers. Once those were baked I crumbled them up in the food processor to create the crust to bake.

The crust had to bake for about 10 minutes and while watching it bake I wish I would have added in a bit more graham cracker crumbs to make it more sturdy but it still turned out great. Then I added in the filling, put it back in the oven for it's final bake, and crossed my fingers!

While that was baking I whipped up (literally) one of my most favorite homemade treats, whipped cream. It is so easy to make and so delicious. Not even comparable to store bought whipped cream. Yes, it is THAT good.

 Yum!

And now I have been enjoying Key Lime Pie for days and am not complaining about that one bit.