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Cooking & Baking

Jilly_in_VA

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2. Sounds like a great idea

Reply to Hotler (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 02:16 PM

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I'm not a great fan of graham cracker crust anyway except for certain things, and key lime pie is one of them. I have a jar of biscotti crumbs that I intend to use for such. I also prefer vanilla wafers to graham crackers for piecrust, which is weird since I like graham crackers plain.

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Key lime pie with a standard pastry crust instead of graham cracker. [View all] Hotler Saturday OP

With an amazing pie crust any pie filling will be spectacular. Tikki Saturday #1

Sounds like a great idea Jilly_in_VA Saturday #2

perhaps these crusts? justaprogressive Saturday #3

it will be fine, don't bother with the extra sugar Kali Saturday #4

i always make my crust darker. more flavor + never a soggy bottom. pansypoo53219 Saturday #5

You could do a classic pate sucree Warpy Saturday #6

I had a key lime pie recipe Marthe48 Yesterday #7