If you love Key Lime Pie, this is the cheesecake for you. Creamy, sweet and tangy, this cheesecake is easy to make, and has a very smooth texture to it.

Key Lime Cheesecake


Ingredients

Crust

  • 1½ C Graham cracker crumbs
  • 6 tbsp Butter (melted)

Filling

  • 24 oz Cream cheese
  • ¼ C Cream
  • 1 C Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Corn starch
  • 1 tbsp grated zest
  • 4 Eggs
  • ⅔ C Key lime juice


 

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 300°C. Grease a pie dish.
  2. Mix the graham cracker crumbs with the melted butter and pat it down tightly into the pie dish.
  3. Have some of these crumbs go up the sidewalls.
  4. Freeze this for 30 minutes.
  5. Mix the cream cheese, cream, sugar, cornstarch and zest together.
  6. Slowly add in the eggs.
  7. Lastly, pour in the key lime juice.
  8. Mix well and pour it into the pie dish.
  9. Bake in the oven for 90 minutes.
  10. The cheese cake is done when an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
  11. Cool on a wire cooling rack for 1 hour before storing it in the refrigerator.

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