Easy Key Lime Pie Lush Recipe – Creamy No-Bake Summer Dessert
Key Lime Pie Lush is a tart, sweet, and creamy five-layer dessert that’s incredibly easy to make. Perfect for summer entertaining, it can be served chilled or frozen for a refreshing treat.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Yield: 16 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Bake
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
Scale
- 20 oz double stuffed Golden Oreos
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 16 oz cream cheese, softened
- 6.8 oz instant vanilla pudding mix (2 packets)
- 5 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream, divided
- 1 cup key lime juice
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- Zest of 1 lime
Instructions
- Crush Oreos into crumbs using a food processor. Reserve 1 1/2 cups crumbs.
- Mix remaining crumbs with melted butter and press into a 9×13 dish.
- Beat cream cheese until smooth, then mix in pudding mix.
- Add 1 cup cream, mix, then another cup, then key lime juice until smooth. Reserve 2/3 cup mixture.
- Spread cream cheese mixture over crust and top with reserved crumbs.
- Whip remaining cream with powdered sugar until medium peaks form.
- Fold part of whipped cream into reserved cream cheese mixture with lime zest and spread over crumbs.
- Top with remaining whipped cream and chill at least 6 hours or overnight.
Notes
- This dessert can also be frozen and served as a frozen treat.
- Nilla wafer or graham cracker crust can be used instead (double crust recipe if substituting).
- Best results after chilling overnight.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 648
- Sugar: 28 g
- Sodium: 323 mg
- Fat: 51 g
- Saturated Fat: 28 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 23 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 45 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 5 g
- Cholesterol: 153 mg