Easy as Pie – Key Lime Pie

I am a massive Dexter fan.  The show is superb, the books are not that great.  In season three (episode seven “Easy as Pie”) Dexter’s confidant Camilla Figg is hospitalised with terminal cancer so Dexter the very empathetic serial killer agrees to find her the perfect Key Lime Pie before she passes.  I have never heard of this pie and was instantly interested.  I know this is strange but whenever I am watching TV and they mention a food I am unfamiliar with I reach for my computer and Google it.  I am told I am a little obsessed.  I gleefully clicked through many different recipes in search of something authentic.

My search is complicated by the character Camilla as I continue to watch the show and Google simultaneously.  In her bed ridden quest to eat the best pie she would critique each pie that dear Dexter would bring her with comments such as “this one has whipped cream folded into it” or “this one green food colour added to it”.  Being a complete novice to these pies I take the quotes as sage words of wisdom in my pie quest.  I continue clicking away until I get distracted by the next scene in the show.

More than a year later a friend mentions said pie to me again and I instantly know what they are talking about.  And I want one, now!  I don’t have a recipe to go to and my regular web resources fall short.  What am I to do?  I Google it once again and start trawling through recipes.  I eventually settle on the first one on the list which is from Taste.

This pie is very easy to make and is very appropriate for anybody who doesn’t cook much as not many tools are required and there aren’t many things you can stuff up.  Instead of using a food processor I put the biscuits in a freezer bag and pounded them into a fine crumb with a rolling pin.  As a child I used to do this when I was helping Mum make Lemon Coconut Slice (another one of my favourites).  I recommend doing this as it gives a better crumb, is a way to distress and also a good way to rope some assistance from a willing 3^rd party into the kitchen.  The texture of this pie is very much like a baked cheesecake which amazed me as there is no cream cheese.  And the lime flavour is very prominent and pleasing.

To conclude Dexter is always right.  There is no whipped cream or food dye in this recipe and Deb (Dexters sister in the show, and Michael C Hall’s wife in real life) is wrong (see below).

Dexter: Where can I get a good key lime pie?

Deb: You can’t, they all taste like dog shit.

Well Deb mine tasted great.  Please enjoy this pie.

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