If you are looking for the easiest lemon pie in the world, this might be it. Creamy Lemon Pie from Eagle Brand has been around forever, but for some reason I'd never tried this exact version. I'm glad I did because I think the family liked it more than Key Lime!
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With ½ cup of lemon juice and one can of condensed milk, this pie is pretty lemony. I threw in some extra lemon zest, but it was totally unnecessary and I wouldn't add zest again.
This creamy lemon pie is very simple. If you want one that is still simple but a little more innovative, there's a good lemon icebox pie from Cook's Country Magazine that has the interesting step of reserving 3 tablespoons of condensed milk and using it to sweeten the whipped cream topping. For this pie I didn't bother making any whipped cream topping, I just put a big dollop of whipped cream over the individual pieces.
This pie is perfect for when you want to use a 6 oz Keebler Ready Crusts, but if you have more time you can make a basic graham cracker crust.
Basic Graham Cracker Crust
1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons melted butter
Mix, pat into shallow pie dish and bake for about 7 minutes at 350 degrees F.
As you can seem, the piece of pie in this photo is a wee bit small. That's because I scaled the recipe down and made it in a 7 inch pie dish. If you happen to have a 7 inch pie dish and want to do that, it's entirely possibly. I'm putting the full recipe because I'm guessing that's what most people will want.
Recipe
Creamy Lemon Pie
Ingredients
- 1 6 oz Keebler Ready Crust Or make your own
- 14 oz condensed milk (one can of Eagle Brand)
- 3 large egg yolks
- ½ cup fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Stir together the egg yolks, condensed milk and lemon juice. Pour mixture into the crust and smooth the top.
- Bake pie for about 28 to 30 minutes.
- Let the pie cool completely, then chill thoroughly before serving.
- Serve with sweetened whipped cream or whipped topping.
Sonja A Caruth says
I make a variation of this using cream cheese that's non bake, nice easy creamy good. Graham cracker crust, 2 lg bricks of cream cheese room temp, 1 can of sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, and lemon juice to taste. Chill till set.
Sue says
I’ve been wanting key lime pie. This sounds like it would be a great alternative!
T. Martin says
If one were to do this as a tart would you say 9" would work?
Todd Ginsberg says
I have had this for dessert two nights in a row now and it is fantastic. One of my new favorites, for sure.
Sonya says
This looks good and I love how easy it looks to make it!
Anna says
Haven't seen that review on lemon squares, but I'll look for it. I do like the condensed milk lemon squares recipe, though. The other ones can sometimes taste eggy.
Stephanie says
Thanks for this. I don't know if you saw the Kitchn's review of lemon squares but their number one lemon square recipe was the one with condensed milk. I also use the America's Test Kitchen Key lime pie recipe with lime juice, lime rind and 4 egg yolks. I like this recipe because there's less egg yolks. I love these quickish recipes and any pie that I can eat with whipped cream is fantastic!