Description
All the flavors of a bright and zesty key lime pie, in the form of homemade fudge! This recipe for Key Lime Fudge Bars is seriously citrusy, and so addictive!
Ingredients
Scale
- 20 shortbread cookies, crushed (about 1 cup)
- 5 Tbsp salted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
- 3 Tbsp Key lime juice
- zest of 4 Key Limes.
- green food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Line an 8×8 pan with foil.
- In a medium bowl combine crushed cookies, melted butter and granulated sugar.
- Press evenly into prepared pan. Bake for 6-7 minutes until edges start to golden.
- In a double boiler melt white chocolate chips. When just melted remove from heat and stir in sweetened condensed milk and Key Lime juice.
- Stir in zest.
- *Optional, reserve 1/4 cup fudge mixture and with a small amount of green food coloring, tint the reserved mixture and set aside.
- Spread the un-colored fudge mixture into prepared pan. Then drizzle reserved mixture on top and swirl in with a knife.
- Place in refrigerator to set, 2-3 hours.
- Cut into squares.
Notes
This is a soft fudge, and although you don’t have to, I stored my in fridge.
adapted from Sugar Cooking
