Simple Lime Dessert

Name: Simple Lime Dessert
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 15 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 can condensed milk; 2 can evaporated milk; 6 limes; 1 green food coloring (optional); 2 packages maria cookies; 1 can evaporated milk

mariel @cook_3594660

My grandmother used to make us this dessert in mexico and growing up i always thought it was difficult until i asked her the recipe and i found out how simple and cheap it was to make myself now that we live far apart.its sweet but not too tart

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Ingredients

20 mins

15 servings

lime puree
2 cancondensed milk
2 canevaporated milk
6limes
1green food coloring (optional)
cookie layer
2 packagesmaria cookies
1 canevaporated milk

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Steps

20 mins

1

pour 2 cans condensed milk and 2 cans of evaporated milk in blender and blend at low speed
2

zest 3 limes add to blender then add juice of 6 limes to blender and blend at a higher speed until mixture becomes really thick (green food coloring optional)
3

in a small bowl pour third can of evaporated milk
4

dip cookies one at a time in the evaporated milk and start making a layer of cookies at the bottom of a deep glass baking dish
5

pour lime puree over the cookies until covered
6

repeat steps 4 and 5 until you run out of either puree or cookies
7

garnish with nuts, limes, or fruit and place in fridge for atleast 3 hours or until it gets thicker for serving it will defenitly be messy so fair warning