Thursday 25 June 2009

Carol's Key Lime Pie

So here it is peeps. Key Lime Pie as directed by the amazing carol, with some slight amendments by myself.

What You'll need:
3 large Limes
An equal amount of evaporated milk and whipping cream
A Large Packet of digestives
A pack of butter
(and if you want, some pickled ginger)








Take the three limes and zest them putting about two thirds of the zest into a food processor (or bowl if you're a pauper). Reserve some of the zest to decorate the top. Then juice the limes and put this in the bowl






Now take the cream and the condensed milk and put this in the mixer with the lime juice and zest. Then mix until the mixture is stiff enough to form stiff peaks.





Crush the digestives and add these to a mixing bowl. Now melt some butter, not too much at first and add this to the biscuits until you can make almost like a pastry. Put this into the bottom of your serving dish.





Finally, spoon the cream mixture into your serving dish, smoothing off with a palette knife and then decorating with the remaining lime zest.
Place in the fridge until thoroughly chilled.


All that remains now is to remove the serving dish, plate up and serve!! Enjoy peeps!





Summer Mojitos


  • 6 wedges of lime (just over half a lime)
  • 8 fresh mint leaves
  • Small handful (6-8) raspberries (frozen will do)
  • ice
  • sugar syrup (either buy or make, 1 cup water boiled with 1 cup sugar)
  • 50ml (2 shots) Bacardi or white rum
  • 25ml (1 shot) Framboise (raspberry liquer)
  • Soda water

Get a large 'old fashioned' cocktail glass, place in lime wedges, raspberries, mint leaves and a good dash of sugar syrup (1-2 teaspoons). Squish together with a muddler or end of a rolling pin so juice comes out of limes. Add bacardi and framboise and top glass up with ice. Use a spoon to mix all ingredients so mint and lime are distributed through ice. Once mixed, top drink up with soda, garnish with lime, mint leaves and a straw.