Dianne of Dianne's Dishes chose Dorie Greenspan's Florida Pie for this week's Tuesdays with Dorie. Do you want to know what I really love about this challenge? I bake cakes, tartes and pies I normally wouldn't consider baking at all. It's not that I don't think that this cake or that tart doesn't look attractive but for example I did not know what a key lime pie is while it may be quite familiar to Americans. So I'm glad to try some exotic recipes.

My first problem with the recipe: We don't have Graham Crackers here in Germany. Well, not a real problem because I had some pie crust dough left from my strawberry tartelettes. Baking the Florida Pie was easy. I had some difficulties with the merengue: I took a brulee burner (?) to give the merengue a nice brown finish. But it was really difficult not to burn the whole merengue.
I blame on the merengue itself: Think some more sugar would have been better as sugar melts and burns only at high temperatures. With more sugar it should have burnt more slowly. Or am I wrong?

Nevertheless, the Florida Pie tasted nice. The lemony taste could have been stronger but that may depend on what lime you take. I really liked the coconut! Thanks to Dianne for chosing this recipe!

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