Key Lime Pie Jello Shot
Dessert in a shot—tangy lime gelatin meets creamy sweetness with a graham cracker crust for an authentic pie experience in miniature form.
- 1 boxlime gelatin(3 oz box)
- ¾ cupboiling water
- ½ cupkey lime rum cream
- ¼ cupsweetened condensed milk
- 2 tbspgraham cracker crumbs(for crust)
- whipped cream, graham cracker crumbgarnish
- 1Place 1 tsp graham cracker crumbs in bottom of each shot cup.
- 2Dissolve lime gelatin in boiling water.
- 3Let cool for 3 minutes.
- 4Add key lime rum cream and sweetened condensed milk.
- 5Whisk until smooth.
- 6Pour over graham cracker crumbs in shot cups.
- 7Refrigerate for at least 4 hours until set.
- 8Top with whipped cream and lime zest before serving.
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Key Lime Pie jello shots recreate the flavor of Florida's most iconic dessert in gelatin-shot format. Key lime pie was popularized in the Florida Keys using the juice of the small, intensely aromatic key lime — the Citrus aurantiifolia native to Southeast Asia that was cultivated extensively in the Keys before hurricanes killed most of the trees in the 1920s. The condensed milk and egg yolk filling, which sets without baking due to the citric acid's reaction with the dairy proteins, became the defining preparation. The jello shot version uses lime gelatin with cream liqueur or sweetened condensed milk and vodka to recreate the dessert's sharp citrus-sweet-cream balance, often presented with a graham cracker crumb rim on individual shot glasses to complete the dessert reference.
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