Coconut Cardinal Lime Bars

Coconut Key Lime Bars: sweet, tart, tangy together with luscious. This is what summertime tastes like!

These kokosnoot telephone commutation lime bars are rich together with creamy together with practically melt inward your mouth. Each seize amongst teeth is a tropical extravaganza y'all won’t before long forget. If y'all love lemon bars, you’ll honey this flavorful twist on the classic.

 

Fresh telephone commutation limes are non only for dessert!

Each together with every summertime I brand at to the lowest degree i luscious dessert recipe using telephone commutation limes. It’s a household unit of measurement tradition! My boy ever wants my Key Lime Pie, together with my hubby adores our Key Lime Pie Gelato. After making our household unit of measurement favorites, I unremarkably direct maintain leftover telephone commutation limes inward my refrigerator but that’s ok because they are a keen improver to thence many recipes, both sugariness together with savory. I outset adding telephone commutation lime juice to salad dressing, marinades together with often squelch a piddling on grilled chicken together with fish. I’ve also made telephone commutation lime butter amongst juice together with zest for a terrific topping on grilled salmon. Oh yes I did! Don’t halt using your telephone commutation limes afterwards y'all brand a pie, bars together with gelato; direct maintain the tangy flavour to your favorite savory summertime recipes too.

 

We’ve added a piddling shredded, toasted kokosnoot to the shortbread crust.

These bars direct maintain only a hint of toasted kokosnoot flavour which combines beautifully amongst telephone commutation lime. I don’t know virtually you, but the kokosnoot together with telephone commutation lime combo transports me to the beach amongst warm sand betwixt my toes, a large floppy chapeau together with the olfactory belongings of suntan lotion smeared all over.  The toasted kokosnoot also adds a piddling chewiness to the crust, which I love.

 

Serve your telephone commutation lime bars amongst a pretty garnish.

If you’re having companionship together with desire to fancy-up these unproblematic telephone commutation lime bars, add together some telephone commutation lime zest, a dollop of barely sweetened cream, toasted kokosnoot curls together with telephone commutation lime wedges. I honey adding the not-so-sweet whipped cream every bit it cuts the richness of these bars. The chewy toasted kokosnoot actually adds to the tropical vibe together with the piddling telephone commutation limes range it that large pucker-factor y'all won’t before long forget.

 

Enjoy this quintessential summertime dessert for your side past times side gathering!

 

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Coconut Key Lime Bars

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 30 mins

 

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 9

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the crust:

• 
  1/2
  cup
  sweetened
  shredded coconut, lightly toasted
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  powdered sugar,
  plus extra for dusting
  


• 
  1/8
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  6
  tablespoons
  cold unsalted butter,
  cut into pocket-size pieces
  

For the filling:

• 
  4
  large eggs
  


• 
  1 1/2
  cups
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  2
  teaspoons
  cornstarch
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  fresh telephone commutation lime juice
  (about 12-14 telephone commutation limes)
  

For garnish (optional):

• 
  lightly sweetened whipped cream
  


• 
  toasted coconut
  


• 
  key lime wedges
  


• 
  lime zest
  


• 
  powdered sugar
  

Instructions

To laid the crust:

1. 
   

   Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly spray an 8x8-inch baking pan amongst vegetable cooking spray. Line the pan amongst parchment newspaper long plenty to exercise a sling, coming upwards together with over the sides of the pan.

   
   


2. 
   
   Place the kokosnoot inward a pocket-size nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Toast the coconut, stirring frequently, until low-cal golden brown. Remove the kokosnoot from the skillet to a medium mixing bowl together with laid aside.
   
   


3. 
   

   Add the flour, sugar, tabular array salt together with butter to the bowl of a nutrient processor. Process only until the mixture resembles coarse sand. Do non over-mix or allow the mixture to come upwards together similar dough. Pour the crust mixture into the bowl amongst the toasted kokosnoot together with mix to blend. The mixture volition travel dry.

   
   


4. 
   

   Pour the crust mixture into the prepared pan together with spread evenly. Press the mixture firmly compressing the crust. Place the unbaked crust inward the freezer for fifteen minutes.

   
   


5. 
   
   Remove the crust from the freezer together with bake until low-cal golden brown, virtually twenty - 25 minutes. Set aside. Reduce the oven temperature to 300F.
   
   

To laid the filling:

1. 
   

   While the crust is baking, laid the filling. In a medium mixing bowl whisk the eggs until blended. Add the sugar, flour together with cornstarch together with whisk until combined. Add the telephone commutation lime juice together with whisk in i lawsuit to a greater extent than until smooth. Pour the filling over the warm baked crust together with straightaway house inward the 300F oven together with bake for 25-30 minutes or until the centre does non jiggle when tapped. Cool completely on a wire rack together with then refrigerate for at to the lowest degree two hours earlier cutting.

   
   


2. 
   
   Remove the kokosnoot telephone commutation lime bars from the pan using the parchment to elevator onto a cutting board. Run a really sharp, sparse knife nether hot running H2O together with then carefully dry out the blade. This volition range y'all razor sudden cuts for a beautiful presentation. Repeat until the bars are cut.
   
   


3. 
   
   Garnish amongst a dusting of powdered saccharide and/or a dollop of lightly sweetened cream, toasted kokosnoot together with telephone commutation lime wedges together with serve.
   
   

Recipe Notes

Refrigerate leftovers inward an airtight container.

 

Makes 9, 12 or sixteen bars, depending on how y'all cutting them

 

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Here are a few to a greater extent than telephone commutation lime recipes y'all mightiness like:

 

Key Lime Pie – this summertime classic has a creamy smooth, tart filling together with a sugariness graham cracker crust. Use fresh telephone commutation limes together with plenty of zest for the best flavor! Click HERE for the slow recipe.

 

Creamy, bright, tangy together with luscious, this Key Lime Pie Gelato has all the flavors nosotros honey inward a keen telephone commutation lime pie…in a scoopable frozen treat! Click HERE to larn the recipe.

 

 

Coconut Key Lime Meltaways – a low-cal together with buttery bite-sized cookie amongst a large tropical flavor. Click HERE to larn the recipe.

Thanks thence much for stopping by! Tricia

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