The signature salad at La Boulange in Palo Alto, California, served as inspiration for this quick and nutritious main dish.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 5 hrs |
| Total Time: | 5 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 squares |
Ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (14 ounce) can evaporated milk
- 2 limes, zested and juiced
- 1 (7 ounce) package Mexican Maria cookies (galletas Maria)
Instructions
- Combine condensed milk, evaporated milk, and lime juice in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well blended.
- Arrange a layer of Maria cookies in the bottom of a small baking dish. Cover with a layer of milk mixture. Repeat layers of cookies and milk mixture, ending with milk mixture. Cover baking dish with plastic wrap. Refrigerate until firm, 5 hours to overnight.
- Cut into squares. Garnish with lime zest.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 217 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 34 g |
| Cholesterol | 21 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 122 mg |
| Sugars | 21 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Good easy recipe. Make sure to add the 4 oz of cream cheese when blending and enough lime juice so that the milk has the right consistency.
Light tasting, refreshing, and so easy with the right squeezer and Persian limes! I used a whisk and I measured what I was squeezing to get 3.5 to 4 oz of juice. After all some are juicier than others and the amount is critical…Less than that and the milk mixture won’t thicken right. I drizzled it in as I whisked. An 8×8 pan is perfect for 3×3 cookies or 9 per layer. I put a little cream down first and had enough to layer about 1 and a third packages of the cookies or 5-6 layers. I like it after a few hours when the cookies still have a little texture…and I liked it overnight when it had soaked into the cookies and had a more cake like look and texture.
This is an update to my previous review. If you have a blender, mix it in there for a while. Also, the Maria cookie folks have a recipe for this which also calls for 4 oz cream cheese at room temperature, and that should do the trick!
Riquisimo!!!!!!!!!!!!
5.1.18 Recipe directions tell you to “cut into squares.” I left this in the fridge overnight, and it never firmed up. The recipe tells you to beat with an electric mixer until “well blended,” which I did, not until you reach a certain consistency. Layering this dessert was impossible because the Maria cookies floated to the top. It would seem to me that the milk mixture would need to be thicker for this to work. The cookies taste good and that’s the only reason I’m giving this a 2-star rating, but the milk mixture all puddled at the bottom of the dish, just runny. Sorry for the bad review, but I don’t see how I could have made a mistake in preparing this dessert, simply because of the simplicity of the recipe, but this was a failure for me.