Desserts

Lime Pie

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 45 mins
Total Time 45 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

For the sponge cake base:

  • 3 egg (s)
  • 100 g suar
  • 100 g flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder

For the cream:

  • 8 sheets gelatine, white
  • 250 g quark, (low-fat quark)
  • liter ⅛ lime juice
  • 2 lime (s), the zest
  • 150 grams sugar
  • 250 g cream

For decoration:

  • 2 sheets gelatine, white
  • 300 g jam, (lemon or lime jam)
  • 3 lime (s), organic
Lime Pie
Lime Pie

Instructions

  1. For the biscuit:
  2. Beat the eggs with sugar until they are white frothy (approx. 5-8 min.).
  3. Mix the baking powder with the flour and fold into the egg mixture with a whisk.
  4. Pour the mixture into a 26 cm springform pan lined with baking paper and bake at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes! Let cool down.
  5. For the cream:
  6. Soak gelatin.
  7. Whisk the quark with the lime juice, zest and sugar, stir in the dissolved gelatine. Once the gel has started to gel, fold in the stiff cream.
  8. Place the edge of the cake around the base, smooth the cream over it and put it in the fridge!
  9. For the decoration:
  10. Soak the gelatin.
  11. Wash the limes and cut them into very, very fine slices. Apply this all around the cream.
  12. Carefully heat the jam, preferably in a water bath, and dissolve the gelatine in it. Carefully spread the warm jam onto the limes!
  13. Now chill the cake for at least 3-4 hours!
  14. Ps:
  15. The cake can of course be varied with lemons or oranges!
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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