Key Lime-Buttermilk Icebox Pie

By sandy_h

From Southern Living June 2015

Note: Use Crumb Crust recipe with butter crackers

Ingredients

• For Crumb Crust:
• 1 1/2 cups crushed cookies or crackers, such as vanilla wafers, graham crackers, gingersnaps, saltine crackers or round buttery crackers
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp kosher salt (omit when using buttery crackers or saltines)
• 6 Tbsp butter, melted
• Vegetable cooking spray
• For Pie:
• 1 (14-oz) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 Tablespoon loosely packed lemon zest
• 1/2 cup Key lime juice
• 3 large egg yolks
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• Buttery Cracker Crust, baked
• Vegetable cooking spray
• Sweetened Whipped Cream

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Whisk together first 3 ingredients in a bowl.

Beat egg yolks with a handheld mixer in a medium bowl at high speed 4 to 5 minutes or until yolks become pale and ribbons form on surface of mixture when beater is lifted. Gradually whisk in sweetened condensed milk mixture, and whisk until thoroughly combined; whisk in buttermilk. Pour mixture into prepared crust.