Recipe: Lemon Pie

Lemon Pie Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 cups (9oz) vanilla wafers (~2 ½ cups crushed)

• ½ cup unsalted butter, melted

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• ¼ teaspoon salt

• 1 can sweetened condensed milk

• 4 egg yolks

• 1 cup fresh lemon juice

• ¼ cup powdered sugar

• 1 cup heavy whipping cream

Directions

• In a food processor, pulse the vanilla wafers to fine crumbs.

• In a medium bowl, stir together the wafer crumbs, melted butter, sugar and salt until everything is covered in butter.

• Transfer the crumbs into a 9 inch tart pan and press the crumbs into the bottom and sides.

• Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

• Beat the egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon  juice. 

• Pour the batter into the tart pan.

• Bake for 30 minutes or until the center is just slightly jiggly.

• Let cool at room temperature for 30 minutes.

• Refrigerate for 4 hours.

Equipment

• 9 inch pie or tart pan

• Electric mixer

• Food processor