Margarita Pie Food

MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• For the crust: In a medium mixing bowl mix crushed pretzels with butter and press into 9-inch pie pan.
• For the filling: In a small saucepan combine 1/2 of the limeade and gelatin, heat until dissolved and cool completely. Combine remaining limeade, condensed milk, gelatin mixture and zest in a large bowl. In a separate mixing bowl, whip cream until soft peaks form. Fold whipped cream into milk mixture and mound into crust. Chill 2 hours and garnish with candy lime slices.

MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• Beat ice cream, limeade concentrate and food coloring with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.
• Spread into crust.
• Freeze 4 hours or until firm. Let stand 10 minutes at room temperature before cutting into slices to serve. Store leftover pie in freezer.

BAKED MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 F and have ready a premade graham cracker pie shell (either 9" or slightly larger) or if you prefer, a baked& cooled regular pie pastry.
• Whisk together the margarita mixer, the eggs, and the sweetened condensed milk until smooth.
• Pour into the pie shell and bake for about 10-15 minutes, or until pie is almost set and the top is getting bubbly and edges of filling are just beginning to brown.
• I placed a pie shield over the crust edges to keep them from overbrowning- if you do not have one, you can cover the crust edges with some foil.
• Set pie onto a wire rack to cool to room temperature, then cover and place in fridge until fully cooled, at least 1 hour.
• Before serving, garnish with whipped cream.

MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• Crush pretzels in plastic bag.
• Combine all crust ingredients in bowl.
• Press crust mixture onto bottom and up sides of 9-inch Pie Plate; set aside. Zest both limes.
• Juice both limes.
• Combine lime zest and juice with rest of filling ingredients and fold together.
• Pour filling into crust. Chill 25-30 minutes.

FROZEN MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Let cool slightly.
• Crumble graham crackers into a food processor. Add melted butter, sugar, and 1/4 tsp. salt and process until mixture resembles wet sand. Transfer mixture to a shallow 9"-diameter pie dish. Using the bottom of a measuring cup, press crust firmly and evenly across bottom and up sides of dish. Freeze 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk cream in a medium bowl until stiff peaks form, about 4 minutes.
• Finely grate zest from 1 lime half into a small bowl; set aside. Squeeze juice from all of the limes into a fine-mesh sieve set over a glass measuring cup (you should have about 1/2 cup juice).
• Pour lime juice into another medium bowl. Add condensed milk, tequila, and remaining 1/4 tsp. salt and whisk until mixture is smooth. Gently fold in half of the whipped cream just to combine, then add the remaining whipped cream and gently fold until no streaks remain (be careful not to overmix; you want to keep as much air in the whipped cream as possible).
• Remove pie dish from the freezer and scrape filling into crust. Use a spoon to gently spread filling evenly all the way to the edges. Sprinkle with reserved lime zest and freeze until filling is set, at least 8 hours.
• Do Ahead: Pie can be made 3 days ahead. Cover; keep chilled. Let soften in fridge 30 minutes before slicing.

MARGARITA PIE WITH A PRETZEL CRUST!

Steps:

• Pie Crust:.
• Melt margarine and combine with sugar and pretzel pieces. Press into buttered 9 inch pie pan.
• Filling:.
• Combine condensed milk, lime juice, alcohol and food coloring.
• Fold in whipped cream. Cool whip can be substituted.
• Pour into pie crust and freeze for 4 hours.

FROZEN STRAWBERRY MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• Make crust:
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Stir together graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter in a bowl with a fork until combined well, then press mixture evenly onto bottom and up side of a buttered 9-inch metal or glass pie plate (4-cup capacity).
• Bake 10 minutes, then cool in pie plate on a rack, about 30 minutes.
• Make filling:
• Purée strawberries, zest, lime juice, condensed milk, tequila, and liqueur in a blender until just smooth, then transfer to a large bowl.
• Beat cream in another bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until it just holds stiff peaks. Fold one third of cream into strawberry mixture gently but thoroughly to lighten, then fold in remainder in 2 batches.
• Pour filling into crust, mounding it slightly, and freeze, uncovered, until firm, about 4 hours. Remove from freezer and let soften in refrigerator, about 40 minutes, before serving (pie should be semisoft).

MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• In saucepan, melt margarine; stir in pretzel crumbs and sugar.
• Mix well.
• Press crumbs on bottom and up sides of a buttered 9-inch pie plate; chill.
• In large, combine sweetened condensed milk, lime juice concentrate, tequila and triple sec; mix well.
• Fold in whipped cream.
• Pour into pie crust.
• Freeze 4 hours until firm OR Chill 2 hour in the refrigerator until firm.
• Garnish as desired.