Key Lime Bars with Macadamia Crust

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup firmly brown sugar light packed
• 6 tablespoons butter cubed
• 2 cups flour all-purpose
• 1 envelope gelatin powder unflavored
• 0.5 cup key lime juice 
• 2 tablespoons key lime juice 
• 1 teaspoon lime rind grated
• 24 servings garnish: lime rind grated
• 0.7 cup macadamias chopped
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 0.8 cup sugar 
• 14 ounce condensed milk sweetened canned
• 2.5 cups whipping cream 

Equipment

• food processor
• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• whisk
• wire rack
• aluminum foil

Directions

1. Process flour and next 4 ingredients in a food processor until finely ground. Press mixture into a greased aluminum foil-lined 13- x 9-inch pan.
2. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until golden. Cool on a wire rack.
3. Heat 3/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup lime juice over low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
4. Remove from heat, and set aside.
5. Sprinkle gelatin over 2 tablespoons lime juice in a medium bowl; stir gelatin mixture, and let stand 3 to 5 minutes.
6. Add hot mixture, stirring until gelatin dissolves.
7. Whisk in sweetened condensed milk and grated lime rind.
8. Place bowl in a larger bowl filled with ice; whisk mixture 10 minutes or until partially set.
9. Fold in whipped cream.
10. Pour evenly over prepared crust; cover and chill 8 hours.
11. Cut into diamond shapes.
12. Garnish, if desired.