Easy Lemon Cream Pie

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To make the crust for this easy lemon cream pie, you just need three ingredients. Graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter. The original recipe calls for crushing up actual graham crackers in a bag, but I recommend just buying the already crushed graham cracker crumbs. You can easily find it in your local grocery stores in the baking section. This just saves you an extra step and some time to make this the easiest pie ever!

Start by combining the graham cracker crumbs with the sugar. Then, slowly pour the melted butter into the mixture as well. Once everything is combined well, pour mixture into a greased pie dish. Using your hands, press mixture firmly into dish. Then bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes, or until a nice golden brown.

The filling in my opinion is the best part and the good news is that you only need a handful of ingredients for the filling too. Just some fresh lemon juice, sweetened condensed milk, egg yolks, and a little pinch of sea salt. You then combine these ingredients in your stand mixer for four minutes before pouring it into the prepared pie crust.

Once you have it all mixed and poured into the pie crust, then you bake it. Just place it back into the preheated oven for 10 more minutes, or until the mixture is set.

After you bake it for 10 minutes more, now it’s time to let it cool. Simply place pie dish on a cooling rack for 30 minutes. Then, you can place pie dish in the fridge for several hours or overnight. You can make the whipped cream topping right before you are ready to serve it.

The last part of this easy lemon cream pie recipe is to make the whipped cream topping for it. Which makes it even more delicious if that’s possible! Simply mix up the heavy whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla together in your stand mixer until stiff peaks form. Then, apply it straight onto the very top of the pie. You can basically just slap it on there because no matter what, it still looks good! Then, you can garnish it with some lemon slices and/or mint if you desire. I usually just do lemon slices because I didn’t have fresh mint on hand. I need to start my herb garden again soon this year so I can have fresh herbs at my disposal again!

And that’s it! See how easy this lemon cream pie is to make?! I promise you won’t regret making it either. It is definitely one of my favorite dessert recipes. I keep it on a rotation often during the warmer months and my hubby loves it. Have you ever made a pie similar to this one before? If so let me know below! And if you try this one out too, let me know! I would love to hear how it went for you too!