Best Ever Key Lime Pie

This Zest and Creamy pie will make you fall in love! Best Ever Key Lime Pie is absolutely the best pie ever!

It’s that time of year again! Ben’s birthday has come and gone already but of course, his birthday brings new recipes.

It’s so weird because our Walmart hasn’t had boxes of graham crackers and that is a problem when you want to make a graham cracker crust! No graham crackers but they did have prepared graham cracker crusts!

If you remember, he had requested the Cajun Chicken Pasta that was complete yum! No birthday celebration is complete without a dessert! This is where the Key Lime Pie comes in!

I’m usually not a pie lover but this one found it’s way into my heart and made the rest of the family happy!

That perfect combination of tart and sweet will take your breath away and will make this pie a family favorite, guaranteed.

Best Ever Key Lime Pie

Ingredients

Graham cracker crust

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs (or buy a premade crust)
1/3 cup granulated sugar
6 tbsp butter melted

Key Lime Filling

28 oz sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup sour cream
3/4 cup regular limes or key lime juice
zest from 2 regular limes or 4 key limes

Whipped Cream Topping

1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Graham cracker crust

Preheat oven to 375
Mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter in a small bowl. Press the crumb mixture into an 8″ – 9.5″ pie pan. Bake for 7 minutes. Cool for at least 30 minutes.

Key Lime Filling

Preheat oven to 350
Whisk together sweetened condensed milk, sour cream, lime juice, and lime zest in a medium bowl. Pour into prepared graham cracker crust and bake for 10 minutes.
Let pie cool slightly before chilling. Chill for at least 3 hours.

Whipped Cream Topping

Beat heavy cream and sugar together in a mixer until stiff peaks form. Beat in vanilla. Spread or pipe the whipped cream on top of the cooled pie. Top with additional lime zest if desired.