Thanksgiving is a special time in America. Each family has their own recipes that they use to celebrate. Each generation does something to make it their own, knowing that the next generation will do the same thing. For me, this was adding Key Lime Pie.
Pecan Pie is entirely too sweet for my taste, even though the rest of my family seems to love it. Also, I know that Pumpkin Pie isn’t everyones cup of tea. The solution was to make my favorite pie from my time in American. Therefore, we added Key Lime Pie to our dessert table.
As important as traditions are for Thanksgiving it was more important for us to make it our own. Since we are in Germany we wanted to include things that taught our kids about their heritage and things that remind me of my time in America.
The first time we did this I just made one small Key Lime Pie and it was gone in no time. Since then we have done a little more each year until we ended up with this recipe. We celebrate with about 100 people, so if you are a smaller group you might want to cut the recipe in half. You might even want to go smaller than that.
As always, let me know what you think of the recipe. To do that you can either rate it, leave a comment, or do both! I really appreciate the feedback and can’t wait to hear from you!
Enjoy!
Key Lime Pie
Ingredients
Fuer den Boden:
- 250 g Ladyfingers
- 150 g soft Butter
Fuer die Fuellung:
- 200 g Cream Cheese
- 2 Lime
- 2 packs Vanilla Sugar
- 1 pack Lemon Jello
- 100 g Sugar
- 500 ml Cream
Instructions
- Finely chop the lady fingers and mix them into a dough with the soft butter. Cover the bottom of a springform pan with the dough and flatten it with your hand.
- Mix the Jello with 1 cup of cold water and let it soak for 10 minutes. Heat, but don't boil, while stirring until the powder has dissolved. Let it cool, but not set.
- Mix the cream cheese, juice of a lime, sugar, vanilla sugar and jello in a bowl and fold in the whipped cream. Spread the cream on the crust and put it in the fridge overnight.
- Before serving, cut the second lime into slices and decorate the pie with it.
- Enjoy!