How to Store Key Lime Pie with Cream Cheese
With its ultra creamy filling, Key lime cream cheese pie must be stored in the fridge. If you can tightly cover your pie dish, that would work beautifully. If not, you could carefully transfer the remaining slices to a container with a tight-fitting lid.
How long does Key lime pie with cream cheese last?
A Key lime cream pie will last up to four days in the fridge, but the crust is best within the first day or two.
Key Lime Pie with Cream Cheese Tips
Can you use regular limes for Key lime pie?
The Key lime cream cheese pie won’t have precisely the same flavor, but you can use regular (aka Persian) limes. Given the number of other ingredients in the filling, you probably won’t be able to tell the difference!
What’s the best way to get a clean slice of pie?
Before cutting a pie, make sure it’s had the proper amount of time to chill. The most important thing to remember when slicing a Key lime pie with shortbread crust, or any pie with a gooey or sticky filling, is to clean the blade of your knife or pie slicer between cuts. A damp kitchen towel or paper towel will do the trick, but you could also dip the blade in hot water.
Watch How to Make Key Lime Cream Pie
Ingredients
1 package (11.3 ounces) pecan shortbread cookies, crushed (about 2 cups)
1/3 cup butter, melted
4 cups heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon coconut extract
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup Key lime juice
1/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut, toasted
Sliced Key limes, optional
Directions
1
In a small bowl, mix crushed cookies and butter. Press onto bottom and up side of a greased 9-in. deep-dish pie plate. In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add confectioners’ sugar and extract; beat until stiff peaks form. In another large bowl, beat cream cheese, condensed milk and lime juice until blended. Fold in 2 cups whipped cream. Spoon into prepared crust.
2
Top with remaining whipped cream; sprinkle with toasted coconut. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours before serving. If desired, garnish with sliced Key limes.
Nutrition Facts
1 piece: 646 calories, 52g fat (30g saturated fat), 143mg cholesterol, 252mg sodium, 41g carbohydrate (29g sugars, 0 fiber), 8g protein.
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