I can’t remember who and I probably didn’t write a thank-you note and now I deeply regret it. (Some kind soul gave us the casserole dish for a wedding present. I used my oval Corningware dish because it has a lid that’s useful during the chilling phase so the icebox cake doesn’t absorb any unpleasant refrigerator odors. Get out a 2-quart or 1½-quart casserole dish or baking dish. It’s true that bottled lime juice tends to be more sharply bitter than fresh limes, but there’s so much sugar in the condensed milk and vanilla wafers that it shouldn’t make much difference. I used freshly squeezed lime juice but I see no reason why you couldn’t use lime juice from a bottle, if you don’t feel like juicing a bunch of limes. The result was a sweet, rich and mildly tangy pudding cake with gentle notes of vanilla from the wafers. “Those things are so dang good,” he said. Clear as mud? (If you’re curious, you can find Lopez-Alt’s Ritzy icebox pie recipe at .) However, when I went with my husband to the grocery store to buy crackers, he cast a hungry eye upon the Nilla Wafers. The Ritz are a substitution for Ducales, a Colombian cracker used in the icebox pie made by Lopez-Alt’s wife Adriana’s aunt Gloria. The same principle is at work in all desserts: layering cream with a pre-baked element then refrigerating overnight so that everything blends together, resulting in a chilled pudding-cake.Įmmymade credits her lime-Ritz recipe to James Beard Award-winning cookbook author J. It’s also similar to a Mexican dessert called Carlota de Limon or Lime Maria, in which lime cream is layered with Maria cookies from Spain. The recipe - which includes limes, cream, condensed milk and Ritz crackers - caught my eye because it reminded me of mango float, the scrumptious Philippine dessert I made a few years ago with mangos, cream and Graham crackers. The videos are perfect when you’re looking for a way to put off folding the laundry.) She makes and eats weird stuff like foam from a tiny toy washing machine or a cranberry mayonnaise candle that really lights. (You can find her YouTube channel by going to and typing Emmymade into the search box. As I was resolutely surfing upon the internet’s tsunami of food videos, I came across a recipe for lime cracker icebox pie by Emmymade.
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