Desserts · Pies & tarts

Key lime pie

Name: Key lime pie
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: 12 crackers graham crackers, crushed; 6 tbsp butter, melted; 2 tbsp granulated sugar; 1 can sweetened condensed milk; 4 yolks egg yolk; juice of 6–8 limes lime; 1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped

Florida's four-ingredient filling in a graham crust: lime juice, yolks and condensed milk set by acid, not heat. Twenty minutes of work, then the fridge does the rest.

Time: 45 min (20 prep + 25 cook)
Servings: 10
Per serving: 347 kcal
Protein: 6 g

Ingredients

Crust

12 crackers graham crackers, crushed180 g
6 tbsp butter, melted85 g
2 tbsp granulated sugar30 g

Filling

1 can sweetened condensed milk400 g
4 yolks egg yolk68 g
juice of 6–8 limes lime180 g

Topping

1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped120 g

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Steps

Press the crumb mixture into a 23 cm (9-inch) pie dish and bake at 175°C for 10 minutes.
Whisk the condensed milk and yolks, then the lime juice — it visibly thickens as the acid works on the milk proteins. That's the pie setting before it ever sees the oven.
Pour into the crust and bake 15 minutes, just until the centre barely wobbles.
Cool, then chill at least 3 hours. Whipped cream at serving.

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Concentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

7% of kcal

42% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

44%

16%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 3472 kcal goes into the pot, 1063 g of ingredients comes out as ~1150 g of food → 302 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 302
Protein: (7%); 5 g
Fat: (47%); 16 g
Carbohydrates: (46%); 36 g
of which sugar: 26 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 176 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.