My strategy for making super cute desserts is serving individual portions on small antique plates and then crowning each dessert with an edible flower.
Made with just four ingredients (eggs, sweetened condensed milk, key lime juice and pre-made tart shells), this is the type of petite sweet that you can be ready to make at a moment's notice. And now it is even easier to keep the these ingredients on hand, because I just discovered that Walmart now stocks Nellie and Joe's key lime juice. Hallelujah.
Key Lime Petite Sweet
1/2 cup key lime juice
1 can fat free sweetened condensed milk (14 oz)
4 egg yolks
1 package of 6 mini graham cracker pie crusts
6 edible flowers
Stir sweetened condensed milk and egg yolks together. While stirring, slowly pour in key lime juice. Place the individual pie crusts (in their metal tins) on a cookie sheet for stability. Pour mixture into pie crusts and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Allow to cool and then refrigerate a few hours to allow flavor to develop. Before serving top with an edible flower, like this pansy. Serve and bask in the oohs and ahhs.
(Note: Edible flowers can be purchased in the packaged herb section of many large grocery stores and also at farm stands/vegetable marts where the blossoms are packaged and marketed specifically as edible flowers)
